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This inspirational quote is being re-posted around my networks today:

There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. So, love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of LIFE…Getting back up is LIVING………Re-post if you agree; I just did

I’ve been trying to trace the origins of this meme using Google and focusing on the quote, Falling down is part of LIFE…Getting back up is LIVING; it seems to have been active on the Web for about a year, especially in the so-called “mommy blogs” and on Facebook.

Update:

• My journey has taken me to KnowYourMeme, a site dedicated to tracking trends in Internet culture.
• An oft-cited story on the tracking of political memes, Study Measures the Chatter of the News Cycle described the 2009 paper by Jure Leskovecy, Lars Backstrom and Jon Kleinberg, Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle (PDF).