Things.. Things like teddy bears, roses, chocolates and pretty much every cute item will be advertised, and while it’s great that there are so many options to choose from to show how much you love and appreciate someone.
A spontaneous trip with loved ones, a romantic picnic, are all ways in which you can seize the moment and tell them just how much they mean to you.
Take time to enjoy life and create memories that you can be happy with. Collecting moments and not things means enjoying what you have and who you have in your life.
And remember,
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
While you are alive collect moments not things, earn respect not money and enjoy love not luxuries.. 🙂
Wonderful thoughts. Thank you for the reminder to collect moments not things. 😊
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Thank you! Have a beautiful Valentine Month, Jenny. 😊
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Thank you writing this and thank you for your recent visit to my blog. I like this a lot!
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Thanks Nanci! It was nice to be up there and reading.
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Reblogged this on Tich Ennis and commented:
I like your stuff
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Thank you!
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I totally agree and know that I’ve been guilty of loving things. Thank you for reminding me this are to be used. People are more valuable even if I don’t know them!
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Exactly! I am glad if it made you move. Thanks for reading, plan a vacation and seize the occasion. 😊
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I was researching information about collecting as a topic speech. It was wonderful to happen upon your site and be reminded that we should never forget to collect the moments we live in. Thank you.
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Glad that you found it good. Great to have your sighter, Rhonda. Thanks.
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Just amazing!!!
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Thanks!! Was wonderful to read ‘Naked’ post of yours.
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Glad!!!
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I loved this piece. So true how much we all need to be loved.
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Absolutely, Thanks. 🙂
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good post and amazing thoughts.
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Thanks for reading, Jessica. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, Mary. 🙂 Enjoy the moments.
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“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.” So True.
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Thank for reading through, Monika. 🙂 Glad you liked the content.
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Thank you, A, for reading my blog: Your Reality – My Reality. That enabled me to find you blog. My wife (of 50 plus years) and I have traveled for these past 50 years and document it all with pictures, and she now uses those pictures – those memories – to bless our children and grandchildren.
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Thank you for sharing this, Gene. 🙂 Such a superb journey you had all these years with memories in pictures and travelling places, and yet you must be geared for more. The hunger should never go.
So happy that your wife now have a lot of memories to share with her grown up kids and the tiny tots of them.. 🙂 🙂 Happy Happy. Thank you!
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This post has many truths. If you learn to respect others for their strengths and love them in spite of their weaknesses, your life’s journey will be easier. Encourage others, laugh and smile often, write and share wisdom. Gene, thanks for sharing your thoughts,
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Thank you so much! Very true. Its all about helping others to close up their weakness and enjoy seeing them reaching heights with their strengths. Thanks again!
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I support every sentence you have written here! Enjoying the life with your beloved brings happiness!
Best regards, Heidi
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Thanks Heidi.
Absolutely. Its all about the little moments that counts. Maybe they are created along or alone. 😊 Hope you collect many more.
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Amazing love this.
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Thanks, Sherri!
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Thanks for your visit…moments are precious indeed. Tick, tock…enjoy your collection of them, A.
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Thank you! Will be visiting often. 🙂 Wishing you the same. Happy Days!
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SMILE! BECAUSE YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL.. 🙂
I love the tagline, as soon as someone visits your page!
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Thanks for the love on my blog, and thank you so much for this wonderful post! I always need to be reminded to spend time with people as opposed to money.
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It was wonderful to find your end and read some good posts. Glad you had time to read this one. 🙂
Agree, wish you an awesome half of the year.
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AMEN! Loved it.
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Glad you found it that good. Thank you! 😊
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Beautiful post 😊 A very good thought indeed
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Thanks Shweta! Hope the next little thing that happens, becomes a memory. 😊 Good day!
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Thanks A!! Wish u a good day too 😊
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Absolutely love the “The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.” So so apt and so eye-opening!
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Glad you liked it. Thats really a principal being sighted. Good to have you around the corner. 😊
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Thank you! So happy to be a part of the WordPress sphere😊
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So true, and maybe, just maybe we are all beginning to understand this a little bit more.
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I am happy, if we really are.. 🙂 Thanks.
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Thanks for sharing! Amira!! Wonderful to have you here. 🙂
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Reblogged this on RicetoRiches and commented:
Truth is we learn more from the things we do, not the sentimental value that things collect.
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Agreed. Well said. Thanks Aviva. 🙂
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Love this!!
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”
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Yes, that is something reality. Thanks for reading, Edward!
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Wonderful last sentences.
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Thanks Kasturi! I hope the bowl of oats & milk made a moment for sure! 😊 Good to have your eyes here.
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Yes it was very resuscitating A. Thank you for going through my blog. I am new and it means much. 😊
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Couldn’t agree more. Beautifully said.
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Thank you!
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What a beautiful text to start my day. Thank you.
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Thank you! I am happy that you liked it. 🙂 Hope you collect many moments.
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A great reminder.
Thanks.
KEEP THE LIGHT ON!
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Collecting. Collecting. 😊 Hope the same for you.. smiles. 😊😊
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Reblogged this on Zannnie in Tallinn.
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Hey Zannie, thank you for sharing it. 🙂
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I like this! We all collect too many things, but moments, priceless.
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Hey Michele! Yes, we all walk a different path, but then moments just sink in. 🙂 Hope you travel places and collect more moments.
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Well expressed thoughts. Anand Bose from Kerala
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Thanks, Anand!
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Your observation that things are being loved and people are being used is so true! We are so encouraged to be good consumers that need the next THING, which will often involve using people to get it.
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Hi Claudia. Thanks for reading the post. It happens so often, how easily one plays over another to achieve things. Good to have your thought in. 😊
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True that.Collect moments and live for it
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Time to make one. 🙂 Have a beautiful November and rest of the year.
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This is so true. I’ll bet you can’t remember what that toy was you just had to have for your birthday when you were 8 years old. And I’m guessing (maybe hoping) you don’t still have it. But you will always have the memory of an awesome birthday party you had, or a great trip you took with your family or concerts with friends. Memories my friend are the only things we will carry with us throughout our lives – good or bad.
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Superb words, Angela! Moments lived and memories created, will be cherished along the journey called life. 🙂 Little things that you have mentioned, becomes life for more of us. Good to have your perspective here! Thanks.
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Your so right! It’s nice to have things! God provides us with things for use! We come into life with nothing and we will leave life with nothing! We are to use what God provides well! But we are to leave a legacy that serves others!
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Thank you, Mindy!
Your words are so straight forward, but I wonder many a times on why many of us find it difficult to understand that we will go from this world without anything. It is important to see what kind of legacy we leave behind. Thank you!
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A great reminder for us all thank you!
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Glad to have you reading, Yvonne! 🙂
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Love this. ! Well said and to the point ! Thanks for stopping by and liking my blog, made me discover yours- Best to you !
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Happy that you liked it. Was wonderful to come across yours. Thanks Suzanne!
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Oh my goodness, your last line was amazing and before times were truly chaotic. If I can figure it out I would like to share this.
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Ahah!! That is a comment to take, Julie. Amazing & Chaotic at the same time. Thank you, glad you like it shareable. 😊
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I really was prompted to read your post as soon as I read the title. I totally agree that people read way too much into materialistic things rather that items that holds true worth. I came to this post or something that meant something by a wonderful writer and trust, I was not disappointed,
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Thank you, Kiera. Wonderful perspective from you as well. Hope 2018 will help you to collect more beautiful moments. 🙂
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Thanks and same for you
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That’s lovely! We all tend to be working to gather as many material goods as we can but somehow forget to live the moments. Infact I strongly believe social media can become two-edged sword if not used rightly. I remember as a child I used to visit places, explore it with parents and had so many memories and now most of our time is taken up on updating social media!
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Thank you for the read, Ashrita! I echo you.. the childhood memories and now this fast moving world, it is really important to live and enjoy the moment. I hope 2018 brings many more occasions for your to celebrate and create happy moments to live. 🙂
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Hello from me. Thank you for liking my poem. Many Blessings 🙂
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Pleasure all mine. Thank you. 😊
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How true is that? Oh, this hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Thank you, Suchie! Wonderful to find you reading at this end. 🙂 Glad you liked it.
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I loved it! Keep blogging. So happy my comment didn’t end up in spam today. Been having this issue after having changed my URL and username. 😅
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Thank you!
Yes it happens. I also faced the issue initially.
Wonderful to come across your blog. I haven’t read much over your link, but Rashida will always be the best post! Thanks for writing it down, Suchie! 😊
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Thank you so much for reading.
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Reblogged
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-petislove/collect_moments_not_things/
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Thanks for the reblog! Carlos. 😊
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You are an INSPIRATION!
I think you know that.
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Ah! Thank you so much. I really do not see myself having that power, but certainly, appreciation from you guys makes me do much better. 😊
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I think Moments here can be understood as experiences, insights, flashes, as photographs that will remain and accompany us for the life that follows.
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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)
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Wow! That had so much meaning. Thanks for sharing, Carl. 😊
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Loved you words for the Collect Moments. I have one with that name also, but it is oh so different. Love it…..Diane
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I will definitely give it a read! Thank you for reading it here.
Have a good day, Diane. 😊
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Powerful and inspiring. ❤
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Thank you. 😊
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It’s great you’ve discovered such a beautiful, alternate way of viewing life. Thanks for sharing. And thank you for stopping by my blog recently.
Betsy
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Thank you, Betsy!
Wonderful to see your words here.. was wonderful pausing by your piece.
Thanks, a.
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Happy Diwali 🪔
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Thank you Roksana ! Hope you had a wonderful celebration too 🙂
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Yes. Quite a celebration!
I was on a trip and then I had fever as well, but all’s well 😊
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Take care !
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You too ….
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