QUOTE OF THE DAY

"The passionate mind is selfish. It's so focused on what it desires, reason becomes background noise."

You have to try not to show how much you care even though you do because sometimes you mean nothing to someone who means everything to you it's not pride is SELF RESPECT.

A belief is a feeling of absolute certainty. If you want to achieve anything in life you need to get certain you will achieve it. YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. beliefs control results. Because you will never take action towards something you don't believe is possible! You can have all the education in the world. IT DOESN'T MATTER. IF YOU DONT BELIEVE YOU CAN DO IT, YOU WILL NEVER GET IT. Do you think Jordan could have become the greatest if he didn't believe in himself? Not a chance. He would've quit when things got HARD. He would've quit when he was cut from the basketball team. Do you think SERENA  would be the greatest female tennis player in history without BELIEF? Not a chance. These GREAT athletes, GREAT entrepreneurs, Great human beings are GREAT because they BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES. THEY BELIEVE WHEN NO ONE ELSE DOES. THEY BELIEVE WHEN THEY ARE DOWN. THEY BELIEVE WHEN THEY ARE AT ROCK BOTTOM. THIS IS MY DREAM. AND I WILL SUCCEED. Maybe not IMMEDIATELY, BUT ABS...

So, from a monk’s perspective, the greatest power is to be self-controlled. To be able to train the mind and energy to focus it exactly where you want it and when you want it to be. You are completely detached and undeterred from external ups and downs. You’re able to navigate anything that seems tough, challenging, fun excitement, with the same amount of being equipoised and balanced in equanimity without being too excited in pleasure or being too depressed in pain of knowing how to navigate every situation, to me that’s great strength and great power. There’s a beautiful verse that says that “detachment is not that you own nothing, detachment is that nothing owns you”. And I love it – because to me that summarizes detachment in a way that it’s not usually explained. Usually people see detachment as being away from everything, actually the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not let it consume and own you. And that’s real power, that’s real strength. How many peo...

We’re told the movies we watched give us warped ideas of reality. We’re told our participation trophies ruined us. We’re told we’re losing traditions. We’re getting married too late. We’re aren’t having enough kids. We’re perusing too much higher education. We’re going into too much debt. We just aren’t getting it right. We’re told we’ve ruined department stores. We’ve ruined book stores. We’ve ruined the housing market. We’ve ruined everything, it seems. We’re tired of being a scapegoat. We’re tired of being blamed for the way the world is when we barely came of age to see what the world holds. We barely got full time-jobs before we were getting blamed for not having a great ethic. We’re doing the best we can with what we’ve been given. And we get blamed for being guinea pigs of experiments we never asked for. We get blamed for trying and succeeding when it was the success they had in mind. We get blamed for using different words than they’re used to and desiring different jobs than...

See what we need to recognize is that the things that we truly want, the things that are deeply meaningful. The things that are genuinely fulfilling all require patience. They all require work. They all require energy. See, the challenge is we all want to be with someone who makes us happy when what we need to do is be someone who makes us happy. We sit with our friends discussing the rules but no one even knows what game we're trying to play. Because the problem with our generation not wanting the relationships is that at the end of the day we actually do. Make sure that you take time to press pause and recess and to engage with a conversation together. So often so many of our anxieties are actually built on assumptions or misconceptions which can easily be resolved through a simple conversation as early as you can. The biggest mistake we make is avoidance, we feel something but say nothing, smile and drink the poison at least until that becomes annoying. We tend to avoid...

How will the world be different and better when you're gone? This is arguably the only true important question in our life. Yet we avoid thinking about it.One, because it's hard. Two, because it's scary. Three, because we have no fucking clue what we're doing.           And when we avoid this question, we let trivial and hateful values hijack our brains and take control of our desires and ambitions. Without acknowledging the ever-present gaze of death, the superficial will appear important will appear superficial. Death is the only thing we can know about certainty. And as such, it must be the compass by which we orient all of our other values and decisions. It is the correct answer to all of the questions we should ask but never do. The only way to be comfortable with death is to understand and see yourself as something bigger than yourself; to choose values that stretch beyond serving yourself, that are simple and immediate and controllable and tolerant of t...

Most of us are pretty average at most things we do. Even if you are exceptional at one thing, chances are you are average or below average at most other things. That's just the nature of life. To become truly great at something, you have to dedicate shit-tons of time and energy to it. And because we all have limited time and energy,few of us ever become truly exceptional at more than one thing, if anything at all.       We can say that it's a statistical improbability that any single person will be an extraordinary performer in all areas of life, or even in many areas of their life.

"I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard ...

If you want me to listen to you, respect that I can hear. If you want me to speak to you, respect that I have a voice. If you want me to look at you, respect my ability to see. If you want me to. Do you know how to do that? Listen to me when I talk, talk to me when you hear me, and look at me when I look at you. share with me not only your sadness but also your happiness. If I can bear hours of your sadness, believe me it's because I would like to see days of your happiness. Depend on me if you respect that I am worthy of your trust. Open your heart to me if you respect that i am worthy of your love. -MARYAM JAHAN

Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized or acknowledged the pain you caused me, But bec ause my soul deserves peace.

Your heart is prec ious, so take care of it. It may be able to forgive but don't exhaust it by surrounding yourself with those who constantly do you wrong. It may have an infin ite capa city for patience, but don't exh aust it by surrounding yo urself with th ose who don 't val ue your time.

Respect the freedom that you were born with but that you've denied yourself. Break free from the power that Power has over you and believe in your own beliefs.