Digest: What Are Some Life Lessons?

Takudzwa Razemba, Seeker of Truth, answered on Quora:

1. We’re all just killing time until time kills us.

2. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

3. You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

4. Don't be a hamster on a wheel, furiously churning your way through life but somehow going nowhere.

5. Never confuse movement with action.

6. The best way to ‘make it happen’ in your life is to make the right choices.

7. How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

8. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man or woman should be. Be one!

9. We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

10. A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe Big. Adjust your thermostat forward. 

11. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed.

12. The best way to fight fear, is to act. To increase fear - wait, put off, postpone.

13. The "Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work" attitude produces failures.

14. Give yourself permission to be curious. The single greatest difference between curious, growing people and those who aren’t is the belief that they can learn, grow, and change.

15. The real measure of wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. Annual income $200,000 expenditure $196,900, result happiness. Annual income $200,000 expenditure $206,000, result misery. Live within your means.

16. Don't go with the flow. But, If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

17. Talk with people who make you see the world differently.

18. Sometimes God sends an ex into your life to see if you're still stupid.

19. And please stop trying to look like the girls in the magazines. Because even they don't look like the girls in the magazines.





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