Wisdom from Robert Paul

During May 2004, I, his oldest granddaughter, spoke with Daddy Robert and asked him what he wanted his family to know most of all in term of life lessons. It took prodding and of course what he responded to was at my prompting, but I thought that whatever he had to say about life, love, marriage and getting along in the world would be pretty important to know since he’s been at this thing for 85 years.

This is what he had to say :


Love
I know the Bible says overcome evil with love. Sometimes that’s hard, but if something coming hard against you, if you can put out good, you’ll be happy when you do that when you see the blessing coming back. But if you go the other way to evil, you don’t have nothing coming back…to overcome evil with good that’s tight on you.
-Robert Paul


Humility
Don’t think yourself too highly than you ought to think. We can think pretty big sometimes.
-Robert Paul


Discretion
Sometimes we ought not say everything you think. It don’t do to tell everything you know, keep some things to yourself.
Robert Paul

Patience
Don’t let nothing rush you.
Robert Paul


Marriage
It’s alright. Nothing wrong with being married. You have to work hard at it sometimes to keep it standing. It may get old. Whatever it takes to get ‘em you have to keep doing it to keep ‘em. Don’t let it get too common. When you get to where you don’t care, someone else is over there caring.
Robert Paul


Living Right
I just believe in living right and treating everybody right. Sometimes it won’t come back to you the way you put it out, but in the long run it’ll all work out.
Robert Paul