TWISI = "The Way I See It."
UPDATE May 18: This amazes me. REMO, the cool T-shirt & design company has set up a page showing all new TWISIs in real time and making it easy to retweet or vote the ones you like. They are giving away 100 customized T-shirts every month displaying the top TWISIs.
The authors of the top 10 TWISIs get 5 each, and the remaining 50 go to people who retweeted them or voted for them. Or you can order a T-shirt showing the TWISI of your choice. Check it out! The shirts look terrific, with several different designs and REMO's famed quality and attention to detail.
[Earlier] A semi-serious post last night seems to have lit a small fire and dozens of Twitterers have been tweeting short quotes with the #TWISI tag. Here's a collection of some of them in random order, laid out so that they're super-easy to retweet. Find any that you like and then just copy and paste the entire line. If there's space maybe add the (shortened) url to this page as background. http://ow.ly/5CEU You'll be helping spread a little wisdom!
We'll track which TWISIs get retweeted most and figure out something cool to do with them.
And if you want to write your own #TWISI just post it on Twitter with the #TWISI tag at the end and maybe also include it in a comment below. We'll see it and either update this list or add another list soon.
Thanks everyone below for taking part. If nothing else, it's a fun social media experiment.
RT @jackiegerstein From a teacher: please give your child the gift of gratitude rather than the expectation of entitlement. #TWISI
RT @fedecasas Fear paralyzes you. Act as if you had nothing to lose and you'll defeat it every single time. #TWISI
RT @prexiousbl You fail when you quit trying. #TWISI
RT @rpontremoli The truly important decision in life is who you want to spend it with. Then the rest is easier. #TWISI
RT @eaboyeji A truly free market is impossible without a genuinely free people. #TWISI
RT @cmermel The only wasted day is the one in which you have learned nothing (or learnt nothing, if you are British). #TWISI
RT @bjsebeck There is no such thing as failure. You either succeed, or you learn. #TWISI
RT@brainpicker Our species' survival depends on how fast we embrace each other. #TWISI
RT @techdom When humans learn to love the earth, animals, and others and only take what we really need, we will prosper and survive. #TWISI
RT @Rodien A better world is everyone's business. #TWISI
RT @Self discovery leads to world improvement. #TWISI
RT @Pundelina If you try hard enough, you can achieve whatever you want ... usually. #TWISI
RT @scarrey Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change! #TWISI
RT @brainpicker The biggest roadblock to innovation is that we keep looking left and right for reassurance, rather than forward for leaping ground. #TWISI
RT @BGlad It seems that the more people you meet and understand their real life story, the more you realize that we are all not that different. #TWISI
RT @haikalsiregar Success shouldn't be about anything but what impact you've made on someone's life. #TWISI
RT @tmtek I think it is important to set aside a little time on a regular basis to consider whether or not you are the bad guy. #TWISI
RT @tmtek Dedicating time to convincing yourself you are the good guy does not count. #TWISI
RT @tlthorntjr The next great leap in societal evolution will occur when we learn to focus on our similarities not our differences. #TWISI
RT @andresb When you give more than you have, others will always step up to cover for you. Give freely, live freely. #TWISI
RT@e_s Make an effort to listen better: difference is more on the points we make than the sides we take. #TWISI
RT @ashdonaldson Learning a skill: If you understand the how and why, when faced with new circumstances, you'll be able to adapt. #TWISI
RT @primesoftnz Systematise the symptoms of Love; if you can't make it, fake it. #TWISI
RT @michaeljanzen Shouldn't the value of a home be measured by the happiness and security it brings instead of its size and cost? #TWISI
RT @jaiforster When I open my eyes, I understand little about the world. It's how I look at it, that will affect the world I live in. #TWISI
RT @jasonwpratt The keys to happiness: build lifelong relationships, and to give away 10% of everything you earn to whatever you think is worthwhile. #TWISI
RT @dojau The best way to active a future is to co-create it. #TWISI
RT @MarketingVirgo Optimism, a teapot still singing even though up to its neck in hot water. #TWISI
RT @jaiforster The only things I truly own are my thoughts, the words I say and the actions I take. #TWISI
RT @fedecasas Fear paralyzes you. Act as if you had nothing to lose and you'll defeat it every single time. #TWISI
RT @eaboyeji Ideas may rule the world...but if they fails the test of sound logic and reasoned debate....the may very well ruin it. #TWISI
RT @eaboyeji There is nothing wrong about a child soldier with the right weapons. Education fights poverty. #TWISI
RT @fedecasas What would happen if you lose it all? If your answer doesn't involve death, then risk it all. #TWISI
RT @sarahracha Happiness is that place between too much and too little. #TWISI
RT @moodstep We will become global citizens by apreciating diversity and distancing ourselves from our opinions. #TWISI
RT @Leynete It's not fun unless you're wearing bunny slippers. #TWISI
RT @doingitwrong Starbucks isn't such a bad company. #TWISI
RT @neoptolomus A little bit of decadence never hurt anyone. #TWISI
RT @klowey22 have faith, love, and hope. share appreciation, respect and trust. #TWISI
RT @Thandelike Societal taboos meant to protect us from unspeakable or unimaginable acts only help hide what happens before our eyes. #TWISI
RT @eaboyeji listen to us jaw, that there may be no need for war. #TWISI
RT sunnykins A truly liberatory social justice movement cannot afford to leave anyone at the margins. explanation here http://is.gd/xkJ4 #TWISI
RT @nassefi Truth without compassion is violence. #TWISI
RT @baconner Skepticism is a virtue not a vice. A true skeptic is open to the hardest kind of change, a change in their own beleifs. #TWISI
RT @baconner We can no longer consider information free if its not on the internet, searchable. #TWISI
RT @baconner Learn the difference between casuality and causality or waste a lifetime of decisions on false assumptions. #TWISI