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“Don’t be upset when people reject you. Nice things are rejected all the time by people who can’t afford them.”
Rejection can be hard to bear, and harder for some than others. It also has the unfortunate side effect of eroding one’s self-esteem. Again, more so for some than others. The irony in how upsetting rejection is for someone is that it’s more upsetting if they already suffer from low…
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“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.”
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
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“Be yourself. No one can ever tell you that you’re doing it wrong.”
Being your authentic self is never easy. The harsh reality is that people and their opinions are inescapable; and it’s hard not to be, in some way or another, influenced by them. If you’re wondering if this could be you, here’s one simple way to find out. First, tap into…
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“When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.”
“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing [themself].”
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“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
The fact that nothing can dim the light that shines within makes literal sense. Whatever shines within us literally can’t be touched and therefore can’t be dimmed. However this quote, by Maya Angelou, goes beyond this surface-level meaning. When she stated it, she was referring to the unique characteristics and…
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Living Life Poetically: The Beauty of Self
The ability to be yourself is one of the most important and underrated things you can do in life. It helps to keep in mind that there’s only one of you. So going through your whole life as someone else would be such a waste of who you are. But…
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“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
In a marathon, the runners typically stop running at the finish line. We don’t see anyone of them deciding to run an extra mile because the finish line is simply where the race ends. This saying about following the crowd, likely by Francis Phillip Wernig (aka Alan Ashley-Pitt), is similar…
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“Always refuse to be like the others. The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others.”
The struggle to fit in is part of human nature. Who doesn’t want to feel like they belong? However fitting in is more glamorized in our minds than it should be. This quote, by playwright and novelist Mehmet Murat Ildan, reminds us that being like everybody else actually renders us…
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“When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.”
“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
In the story of Cinderella, the glass slipper fits one person and one person only: Cinderella. However, realistically, there would be others with the same shoe size while there would be those whom the same shoe doesn’t fit. It’s a simple fact of life that we can’t all wear the…
