Life is no picnic. All too often, we have to overcome obstacles in order to survive. But there comes a point when these lies are no longer satisfactory when you take a look at your life and realise that reality is far removed from the delusions you’ve created for yourself. It’s good to motivate yourself, to meditate, exercise and live an all-around positive lifestyle. But if you enter the journey of mastering yourself with a misconception that it will not have struggles, you are setting yourself up for a rough ride.
Life is full of ups and downs, and while I think you have to live through some things to fully appreciate the experience there will be some things you will inevitably face on your journey.
“We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimised when it invariably catches up to us.” – Nenia Campbell
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde
Some truth you should accept:
1. You cannot always rely on friends. No One Owes You Anything
“You can't rely on anybody being around for you because things change.”― Kirsty Eagar
2. What goes around comes around
3. Make time for your passion because after doing what you think is better, you will fall back on Your Passion
“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” —Wanda Sykes
4. Lower your expectations, don't expect too much from people. You will always be disappointed
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be". --Max Lucado
5. Setting boundaries isn't a bad thing
6. Prepare for bad times. Your problems are your own, no one else’s
"Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times".―Joe Torre
8. If one door closes another will open
9. You learn from failure. There are No Shortcuts to anything
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey
10. Nobody else will praise you.
11. you can't make everyone happy and you can't change people
12. Invest in kindness.
13. Be accountable for your behaviour.
14. Dreams Don’t Come True Just by Thinking About Them, you have to work to get what you want
15. You Will Always Experience Negative Emotions
16. Things Are Never Just Perfect
“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality.”
― John Ruskin
17. Everyone has a different journey
18. What goes around comes around
19. There is nothing life a wrong or right decision. Whatever decision you make, it is a lesson learned.
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions".―Jim Rohn
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