Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
JAY SHETTYStrengthened my resolve.
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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Every night when I’m falling asleep, I say to myself, I am relaxed, energized, and focused. I am calm, enthusiastic, and productive.
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When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
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We don’t have to do everything, that we can’t do everything, that what I can’t do is someone else’s gift and responsibility. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people
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If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.
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Sometimes we can trace our fears through the actions we take, and sometimes it’s the actions we’re reluctant to take
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.
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Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy
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Be here now.
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Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
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Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.
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