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*nods head*

Have you ever received advice from someone that was CERTAIN that their recommendation was the ONLY possible solution?

Have you ever encountered a person that made you feel like their attempt to help you was actually smothering the LIFE out of you?

Have you ever received advice from someone that actually came across as UPSET when you decided to go a route other than what they suggested?

Oh, haaaaaaaaaaave IIIIIIIIIIIII ever...

I saw this quote today and my head almost bobbeled off I nodded in agreement so hard:

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."

~Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman

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