Life has a way of changing the ordinary into something extraordinary. Sometimes, in the process of growing up, you may feel like you can’t take any more change.
But then you meet someone, and your perspective changes again.
That is where life begins to make sense again. You see that change is just another part of life, not only something that happens to you but also defines who you are.
- Although we’ve been living for many years now, there are still many things we don’t understand.
- What is life?
- Is it real?
- Do you have an idea of what the best life would look like for you?
- How do we get it back?
- Most importantly, how can we live our best life with all the questions surrounding us?
The A-Z of Life is a collection of QUOTES written by authors to help answer these questions:
ASCRIBING TO MALICE!
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Unknown
AREN’T (I) A WOMAN?
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren’t I a woman?
BETWEEN STIMULUS AND RESPONSE!
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
CHARACTER AND REPUTATION!
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think; the tree is the real thing.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
ENLIGHTENMENT
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.
If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
― W.C. Fields
GIVE YOUR POWER AWAY!
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
HAVING SIGHT BUT NO VISION.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
HOW TO TURN A LIFE AROUND
Too often, we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
IT’S A MATTER OF RESPECT!
I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment.
I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at my place, then I go forward to the next place.
TO BE GRAND AND HEROIC!
One would like to be grand and heroic if one could, but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
ONE OF THE PENALTIES!
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
POWER DON’T CORRUPT PEOPLE!
Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.
STANDING UP FOR SOMETHING
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life.
THE POWER OF HUMAN STUPIDITY!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
UNTIL JUSTICE IS BLIND TO COLOR!
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
WHEN SOMETHING IS IMPORTANT!
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
THE WORLD RESPECTS US…
The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness, and the way we respect every faith.
YESTERDAY…
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Moving on is a simple thing. What it leaves behind is hard.
These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one’s self.
To mind one’s own business.
Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one’s dignity.
To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
CONCLUSION
Your life is a book. It’s filled with thoughts, feelings, actions, and experiences that makeup who you are.
That being said, it’s also a story of sorts—a story with twists and turns that are constantly changing by the minute.
But even though this story changes every day, one thing remains your presence in it all.
In your journal, you can document the many chapters of your life and record any memories or anything else that’s worth remembering.
Your journal will serve as an eternal reminder to take time to reflect on your life.
JUSMEE TALKIN
https://jusmeetwo.com/lifestyles/