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“A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
Whenever we approach a dead end on a road, street, or path, we instinctively turn around and go in a different direction. It makes no sense to continue down a path with no way out. And sometimes, it’s practically impossible. It also makes no sense to settle ourselves down at…
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“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.”
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
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“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
If you look up the meaning of the word “ruin” you won’t find anything positive. As a noun, it’s something in a state of destruction. As a verb, it’s the act of destroying something. So the “ancient ruins” explored by historians and archeologists are aptly called “ruins.” The conditions of…
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The “Life Maze”
There’s a big difference between the maze you see drawn on paper and a physical maze one, typically made out of hedges. Sometimes, when we’re not sure which way to go in life, it helps to imagine our life as a physical maze. This depiction reveals three important realities about…
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“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.”
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“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
This quote, by Confucius, reminds us that our actual mistakes in life are ones that occur and are never corrected. Not correcting a mistake is what makes it be called a mistake. However, when we correct our mistakes, they are no longer called a mistake. They can then be called…
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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”
“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
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“Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.”
Inspiration is often the spark that leads to meaningful action; and one great but under appreciated source of inspiration is actually failure. However, when we fail, we tend to want to forget it ever happened as quickly as possible. But as this quote by Robert Kiyosaki suggests, we shouldn’t bury…
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“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success.”
This quote comes from a novel by Astrid Scholte. It makes us imagine ourselves accomplishing a particular goal with our first step or attempt being falling flat on our face. It reminds us that sometimes there’ll be failures on our road to whatever destination we’re trying to reach. And sometimes…
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“If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.”
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Sometimes we look at something one day and appreciate its beauty. But when we look at it another day, we might barely noticing it. Perhaps we do notice it, but we only see its flaws. Meanwhile, the thing we’re looking at is still the same. Whether it’s something physically around…
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“Forget your past, forgive yourself, and begin again right now.”
We tend to be the harshest critic of our own shortcomings and failures. While a little introspection is good, constantly beating ourselves up over past shortcomings and failures means constantly being stuck in the past. As a result, we’re not able to focus on the present. We become so stuck…
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“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Failure provides some of the best learnings and insights. But sometimes we don’t try again at that thing we failed at. This quote, by Henry Ford, reminds us to take advantage of the opportunity to try again. It reminds us to apply the knowledge that failure brings. Sadly, so many…
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“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.”
“God has perfect timing; never early, never late. It takes a little patience and it takes a lot of faith, but it’s worth the wait.”
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“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
When we do something by accident, it simply means we do something we didn’t intend to do. We may take a wrong turn, press a wrong button, or forget to turn something on/off by accident. This quote, from former soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento (aka Pelé), reminds us that…
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success.”
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”
