Category: life lessons
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Three Soul-healing Thoughts I Wish Someone Had Shared With Me When Life Broke Me
You Are Not Alone, I’m With You. Hold my hand. Technology increases as the years go by, while our happiness decreases. What next? I don’t know, but we have to change. We need to regain connection. We need to recover the joy. We need to grow the little hope we have. That’s why I am writing…
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The Painful Lesson From My Centenarian Grandfather That Changed My Outlook on Life
“Only those who know the smell of gunpowder value the sweet scent of flowers.” Sometimes life is like when you have a scab, and you scratch it because it itches. And you end up opening up the wound again. And then, when you put something on to stop it from bleeding, you wonder, “Why am…
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4 Things You’ll (Probably) Be Ashamed of 20 Years From Now
Some mistakes hurt more than others. When you’re 20, everyone tells you that what you’ll regret most are the wasted opportunities. That’s a lie. You regret the things you are most ashamed of because when two decades go by, you look back and are no longer the person you were: you are a different person, and…
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5 Brutal Truths I Know at 41 That I Wish I Knew at 21
Because the truth hurts, but not knowing it hurts twice as much. When we were little, we had the intuition that grown-ups hide things from us; when we grew up, we discovered that we were right. When I was 21 years old, I ran a discotheque, smoked 60 cigarettes a day, drank half a bottle of…
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Advice From a 42-year-old Who Wants You to Stop Putting Off Your Life by Prioritizing the Lives of Others
Acceptance is the most addictive drug; a demon that makes you sell your soul in exchange for attention. When you fall into the trap of acceptance, there is no turning back, you need to fit in more and more, and you find it harder to say no to any favor you are asked. You end…
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Three Things That Don’t Cost Money and Make You More Attractive
Discover the seducer in you. I worked for years as a waiter in a nightclub and discovered the critical points to becoming a magnet for people by observing the customers. As a result of that experience, I have made a simple list of the three fundamental points (that do not cost money) that you have to…
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5 Life Paradoxes That Will Blow Your Mind
#5- In the small, you feel big. In the big, you feel small. A paradox necessarily contains its opposite; I love discovering and collecting them. It seems to me a nexus of union between duality and the non-dual oriental philosophies. Paradoxes, for me, are the point of union where the extremes touch. And today, I want…
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The 10 Golden Rules for Having Shining Life
#6- Don’t think you are immortal. I remember my grandfather a lot. He had a funny way of telling stories. He did it through lists of rules, and one of his favorites was The 10 Golden Rules for Having Shining Life. I want to continue the tradition and share his list with you as a…
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The Unpleasant Life Lesson That Led Me to a Pleasant Life
Perhaps the best advice that life has ever given me. Being F*cked Up Doesn’t Give You the Right to F*ck Up Others. You have the right to cry, but you don’t have the right to make other people cry. You have the right to feel like a piece of sh*t, but you don’t have the right…
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Four Secret Weapons to Become Mentally Bulletproof
#3- Realize you’re their “Nobody.” If you were a Simpson character, which one would you be? I would be Milhouse Van Houten. So you can imagine the level of bullying I endured growing up. And a bunch of other barbarities that bullies did to kids like me in the eighties. The fact is that after…