People ask you what you do for a living so that they can calculate the level of respect to give you.
Sometimes the best way to protect your peace is by keeping certain chapters of your life just for you. Not every story needs an audience.
Not telling your friends and family everything is the highest level of maturity.
when you stop reading books, you start losing intelligence, ambition, and imagination.
Whatever you do in this life, never complain to a woman about how hard your life is. Dear, she’ll give you sympathy followed by a loss of interest in you.
One way to resist? Read more, use the library, buy from local bookstores, post reviews, talk about the books you’re reading, read banned books. Anything to do with reading, and books, they seem to hate. Stay educated, and continue reading.
The secret to being a private person is to overshare dumb shit so people think you are an open book but then not tell them any of the important details of your life.
The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again
Dostoevsky
Don’t be misled by the illusion of wealth. Big houses, fancy cars, designer clothes, and extravagant holidays are NOT true wealth—they’re often just debt. Real wealth lies in freedom, options, time, and health.
Habits do not restrict freedom
They create it. In fact, the people who don’t have their habits handled are often the ones with the least amount of freedom. Without good financial habits, you will always be struggling for the next dollar. Without good health habits, you will always seem to be short on energy. If you’re always being forced to make decisions about simple tasks—when should I work out, where do I go to write, when do I pay the bills— then you have less time for freedom. It’s only by making the fundamentals of life easier that you can create the mental space needed for free thinking and creativity.
Atomic Habits
Let them go first
Because life is not about who got their own car first, who got their own business first, who got married first, who got pregnant first, or who became successful first. Stop competing with people. Learn to grow in your own journey. Let go of all the pressures and enjoy the blessings God has prepared for you too. You’re blessed especially when you find yourself filled with peace.
Instead of viewing others as ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ or ‘evil’ - simply view them as limited. Their level of consciousness limits them to unpalatable behaviors and they simply cannot do better considering their current level of understanding and awareness. They are not bad, they are simply limited. This small shift in perspective allows you greater peace, greater compassion, forgiveness and grace. Remember, the higher you move in consciousness, the less fault you find in others.
Your mind operates on the famous computing principle of GIGO-garbage in, garbage out. If you do ill, speak ill and think ill, the residue is going to leave you sick. If you do well, speak well and think well, the outcome is going to be well.