Thursday 26 November 2020

Life's Little Lessons

Aphorisms motivate, and inspire because they encompass years of wisdom of people who had experienced the same hardship, or undergone the same circumstances. They are life lessons compressed into a few words, or a couple of sentences. They are nuggets of gold.

Take an interest in aphorisms. Understand what they are saying and learn the underlying lesson/lessons in them. Apply them to life, and to your life. You will discover not only the wisdom, but also the beauty in words. Give the following a try.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. - Marcus Aurelius

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyse it, and appropriately act on it. - Stephen R. Covey

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. - Marcus Aurelius

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires. - Jim Rohn

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. - James Baldwin

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we’re always trying to live up to. - Andrew Cohen

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle

Love and time – those are the only two things in the entire world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. - Unknown

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. - Benjamin Disraeli

Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. - Unknown

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. - Jim Rohn

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