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Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.

Jay Shetty

You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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Character Skill Yourself
Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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Dreams Future Happiness Hope Inspirational Live Present Vision
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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Appearance End Life Pretend True Worst
Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Criticize Ethics Hard Work Worth Yourself
No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.
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Appearance Enlightenment Freedom Growth Transformation Yourself
If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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Break Ego Life Yourself
Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
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Damage Destruction Fall Philosophy Pride Soul
We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
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Connection Each Other Earth Science Universe
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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Blame Character Humble Right Wrong
To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
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Mindset Old Open Path Walk Yourself
Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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Anxiety Depression Fulfillment Happiness Suffering Value
When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life
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Breathe Learning Life Management Situation Yourself
When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.
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Help Hurt Need Simplicity Yourself
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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Be here now.
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Meditation One Liner Present
Monks understand that routine frees your mind, but the biggest threat to that freedom is monotony. People complain about their poor memories, but I’ve heard it said that we don’t have a retention problem, we have an attention problem.
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Attention Boredom Complaint Freedom Memories Mindset People Poor Problem Understand

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