Self-reminder

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

is not always perfect, but it is always what you make it, so make it count.

Make it memorable, and never let anyone steal your happiness.

𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 🖤 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 (𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦) 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞🤍𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

“Men can have an ego after they earned it. Women have an ego from birth” -Dr J

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭55:22‬ ‭

A lot can still happen in the remaining months of this year, still hopeful for the best month ahead! All the best September ✨

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body

Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass

𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵.

𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.

— 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙙 (x)

The teacher learns more than the student.

The author learns more than the reader.

The speaker learns more than the attendee.

The way to learn is by doing.

James Clear

People will throw stones at you. Don’t throw them back. Collect them and build an empire.