Part Two: Adversity
by jedda · 40 things on Twos
- A smile doesn’t always mean a person is happy. Sometimes it simply means they are strong enough to face their problems.
- Not everyone, and not everything, is meant to stay.
- ⭐️ Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them
- It's not what the world takes away from you that counts, it's what you do with what you have left.
- Some people will refuse to accept you for who you are.
- When you're comfortable in your own skin, not everyone will like you and that's OK. It's always worth doing what's right and being true to yourself.
- ⭐️ Sometimes walking away is the only way to win.
- Don't define your intelligence by the number of arguments you have won, but by the number of times you have said, "This needless nonsense is not worth my time."
- Give up: Making excuses rather than decisions
- Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
- A mistake doesn't become a failure until you refuse to correct it.
- Give up: Not appreciating the present moment
- ⭐️ We do not remember days, we remember moments.
- Too often we try to accomplish something big without realizing that the greatest part of life is made up of the little things.
- You can't be successful without providing value
- Don't waste your time trying to be successful. Spend your time adding value to the world around you.
- Truth: Everything is as it should be
- Remember, often when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place
- Truth: Often it's not until you're lost that you can begin to find your true self
- ⭐️ Vision without action is a daydream, and action without vision is a nightmare
- Truth: One of the hardest decisions you will ever face in life is choosing to walk away
- Truth: The only thing you can absolutely control is how you react to things out of your control
- Being at peace means being in a state of complete acceptance of all that is, right here, right now.
- Truth: if you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough
- Abundance is not about how much you have, it's how you feel about what you have. When you take things for granted, your happiness fades away.
- It's OK to fall apart for a little while
- Life is fragile, sudden, and shorter than it often seems
- Spend your time wisely today and pause long enough to appreciate it.
- Don't make a problem bigger than it is
- ⭐️ You should never let one dark cloud cover the entire sky.
- Perfect relationships don't exist
- There's no such thing as a perfect, ideal relationship. It's how two people deal with the imperfections of a relationship that make it ideal.
- ⭐️ It's better to be hurt by the truth than comforted by a lie
- It's better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.
- Let others in when you're in a dark place
- No, they won't always be able to pull you out of the dark place you're in, but the light that spills in when they enter will at least show you which way the door is.
- When you are at your lowest point, you are open to the greatest positive change
- Strength doesn't come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't do.
- There's a lot of life left to be lived
- The real tragedy in life is not death, but the passion we let die inside of us while we still live.