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21 " You are not responsible for how people feel or react when you say no to them. You are only responsible for your word; your “no” or your “yes. "
― Nesta Jojoe Erskine , Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
22 " People make mistakes. When you judge them, you measure their weakness against your own strength. That’s not a fair measure. They have their strength, too. Their strength might be the weakest point in your life. "
23 " Your happiness shouldn’t come with victims. It’s possible to split the light. Your candle can light mine. What is happiness if it doesn’t make another smile? "
24 " One thing about “yes” and “no” is that you can’t say one and leave the other. When you say “no”, it means “yes” to something else. "
25 " No! Life isn’t short. It’s you who decided to have plans longer than what life would allow you. Life is what it is. You can’t take or add. What you can only do is to live it. "
26 " Growth doesn’t happen because we’ve accumulated some number of years. Growth happens when we learn. We mature when we are able to triumph over yesterday’s mistakes. Whatever success we have today is because we dared to fail and learned from it. "
27 " Our goal is not to strive to become fearless! Our goal is to turn our fears into a flower. A flower that we love and want to smell every now and then. Our ultimate goal is to find what it is that we fear, tame it and make it work for our good. "
28 " So today, learn to live consciously. Listen to the rhythm of your heartbeat and how the air feels on your skin and watch life as it happens around you. Worries go away when you live in the NOW. "
29 " Yours might not be a quest for heroism. Yours might be to win a personal victory over a habit. Yours might be a personal battle to gain freedom from fears. A simple win is right "
30 " I win every time I wake up from sleep because having life is a win. You can only win when you are alive. Being alive is an opportunity to try again to win. "
31 " Today, these failures don’t mean anything to me. Looking back, they were everything that made me question the essence of my existence. Every one of them was hard for me to take. But what happened afterwards? Life happened, time passed, and their impact lessened. Most importantly, I moved on. "
32 " Without meaning, life becomes a tragedy we have to endure till the end. "
33 " It’s not what you do but the meaning underlying it. "
34 " Don’t present yourself to people as a blank sheet; they will paint you with their preferred colors, then your life will be in problem. Choose your own colors and paint it the way you want the world to see you. Make it a little brighter so you stand out. "
35 " When the works of your life are good, you need not explain yourself any further. The world will see it as it is and you’ll become what your work portrays. "