"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others."
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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The Rude Customer
A cashier smiled and greeted a customer, but the man snapped back, impatient and rude.
The next customer apologized for him, but the cashier simply shrugged. “If someone hands me poison, I don’t have to drink it.”
The kind customer nodded, realizing—someone else’s anger is their burden, not yours.
"You don’t have to accept every negativity given to you."
A cashier smiled and greeted a customer, but the man snapped back, impatient and rude.
The next customer apologized for him, but the cashier simply shrugged. “If someone hands me poison, I don’t have to drink it.”
The kind customer nodded, realizing—someone else’s anger is their burden, not yours.
"You don’t have to accept every negativity given to you."
"You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them."
— Bruce Mau
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— Bruce Mau
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"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius
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- Marcus Aurelius
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What sinks a life isn't the stuff everyone sees. It's the hidden currents underneath.
The surface stuff (your job, your car, your clothes...) that's not what determines your trajectory.
It's the unseen things: your habits, your thoughts, your relationships. These are the real forces shaping your life.
This is why real change is hard. It's not about surface-level tweaks. It's about diving deep and addressing those underlying currents.
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The surface stuff (your job, your car, your clothes...) that's not what determines your trajectory.
It's the unseen things: your habits, your thoughts, your relationships. These are the real forces shaping your life.
This is why real change is hard. It's not about surface-level tweaks. It's about diving deep and addressing those underlying currents.
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Why do we suffer for things we don’t want?
It comes down to knowing what you want from life.
If you don’t know what you want, everything you do will feel like a good option. But most of the things you choose to do don’t move the needle toward the life you want. And by the time you realise how much of your life you wasted doing things you didn’t even care about? It will be too late to make changes.
Most people will only realise their life was a lie when they’re dying.
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It comes down to knowing what you want from life.
If you don’t know what you want, everything you do will feel like a good option. But most of the things you choose to do don’t move the needle toward the life you want. And by the time you realise how much of your life you wasted doing things you didn’t even care about? It will be too late to make changes.
Most people will only realise their life was a lie when they’re dying.
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn
Life is one long apprenticeship, the most valuable learning always comes through doing.
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Life is one long apprenticeship, the most valuable learning always comes through doing.
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Women are not romantically attracted to men who are overly supplicant, submissive, polite, or obsequious.
Women are attracted to men who are confident and bold.
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Women are attracted to men who are confident and bold.
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It is the hope that kills - Please, read and comment.
It is the hope that kills - Please, read and comment.
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It Is the Hope That Kills
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