Excellence is a habit. If excellence is a habit, so is laziness. Most of our traits are formed through experience rather than nature. Our words and actions are the accumulation of daily habits. Therefore, we should strive to make excellence a habit until it becomes our second nature.
Distance is terrifying because you can never know whether you are being missed or forgotten. Perhaps the most comforting thing in life is reuniting with the self you once lost. We are all travelers through time; you, me, and the era itself. When you look back, that person may have already vanished into the vast crowd, so we have every reason to cherish those around us.
Remember everyone who treats you well, for they could have chosen otherwise. No love should require you to sacrifice your dignity or suffer. Love may bring confusion, jealousy, or tears, but ultimately, it should provide warmth and security. If it doesn't, you may be loving the wrong person or using the wrong method. Rather than suffering in a toxic relationship, it is better to be single.
A smile makes you young; a smile brings no worries; a smile wards off illness; a smile brings good luck.
Only those with shallow hearts experience anxiety and a constant craving for validation. Those who have truly experienced life are calm and quiet; even when unnoticed, they remain steady. Everyone sheds tears in pain, but while the weak drown in tears, the strong keep moving forward through them.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain.
