- Life is short. Time is an essential currency. Spend it wisely. Don't waste it being angry, depressed, envying, negative. Drop bad habits. Spend time with loved ones and appreciate them. Enjoy nature and her beauty. Learn all you can. Exercise daily. Eat well. Cherish every fleeting moment we spend walking through our fragile life of ours.
- Murphy’s Law- Anything that can happen, will happen. No matter how much you prepare, something can and will go wrong. As the saying goes, “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”
- Life is bipolar. Sometimes Life gives you streaks of good luck. Other times, it puts you in the shittiest positions. Always be on your toes and don't let your guard down.
- Every coin has a heads and a tails. Every negative event has a positive side. Every positive event has a negative side. Every failure has a lesson to be learned. Not everything is as bad as it seems. Bad times happen, but like the Persion adage says, “This, too, shall pass.”
- Intangibles are usually priceless. Can you put a price on friendship? Love? Happiness? Health? Most material items are worthless compared to what a good friend is worth. Would you rather have an iPhone or happiness? A mansion or your parents? A helicopter or your health?
- Happiness is internal. Happiness stems from within. Victor Frankl discovered that he was able to overcome and survive the horrors of the concentration camps by lighting an internal fire that allowed him to find his “will to meaning.” In a sense, happiness is like that as well. It’s an internal flame that you must keep carefully sheltered. Carry it with you around everywhere and you will always be happy. It is a path. A choice. Not a destination.
- Life is a battle. You are a soldier trudging through the battlefield of life and time. You are constantly being bombarded by responsibilities, deaths, debts, illnesses, emotions, and series of unfortunate events. The only thing keeping you going is you. Some people couldn't handle it and chose the easy way out. Most trudge through, hating everything and every moment of it. Very few embrace the battle and the challenges- they thrive in the face of danger and adventure. They laugh in the face of Life. How you fight your battles is up to you.
“Let me tell you something you already know.
The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.
It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.
You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard ya hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
That's how winning is done!” -Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
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