“Telling the truth is not a magic formula for having a smooth life. But living a life of integrity is actually easier than living one built around deceit and distortion.”
“I define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.”
“There are no perfect relationships. There are no perfect partners. Relationships by their very nature are chaotic, eventful, and challenging. They are messy and there is no way to eliminate the bumps and potholes, but we don't have to make them any more difficult than they already are.”
With me, alas! Those joys are o'er;
For me the vernal garlands bloom no more.
Adieu! Fond hope of mutual fire,
The still-believing, still-renew'd desire;
Adieu! The heart-expanding bowl,
And all the kind deceivers of the soul!
But why? Ah tell me, ah too dear!
Steals down my cheek the involuntary tear?
Why words so flowing, thoughts so free,
Stop, or turn nonsense, at one glance of thee?
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Great power comes with great responsibility. But also great responsibility comes with great power.
These five values are both unconventional and uncomfortable. But, to me, they are life-changing. The first, which we’ll look at in the next chapter, is a radical form of responsibility: taking responsibility for everything that occurs in your life, regardless of who’s at fault. The second is uncertainty: the acknowledgement of your own ignorance and the cultivation of constant doubt in your own beliefs. The next is failure: the willingness to discover your own flaws and mistakes so that they may be improved upon. The fourth is rejection: the ability to both say and hear no, thus clearly defining what you will and will not accept in your life. The final value is the contemplation of one’s own mortality; this one is crucial, because paying vigilant attention to one’s own death is perhaps the only thing capable of helping us keep all our other values in proper perspective.
It is not in the power of a human being to destroy his celestial Idea; but it is in his power to betray it, to separate himself from it,
Happy nation..
Ideas by man and only that will last
And over time we've learned from the past
That no man's fit to rule the world alone
A man will die but not his ideas
I cry alllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time.
“I could have said something but i was quiet
because pilots aren’t like poets
they don’t make metaphors between life and the sky “
