50 life lessons part 4

151. Defeating someone mentally is way more powerful than defeating someone physically.

152. To attain real freedom, you have to make the sacrifice of giving up an assured life of comfort.

153. Dying with a tag of ‘failure’ or ‘unsuccessful’ is acceptable, but never die with a tag of ‘coward’. Never give in to others, and never let your courage die until your last breath.

154. The pain of struggle is more bearable than the comfort of stagnancy.

155. Fulfilling personal goals will never bring a feeling of void inside you as it is exclusively decided by you without interreference from others.

156. Once you get momentum on something, don’t disrupt it unnecessarily. Continue the momentum because once you put it down, it becomes difficult to find the same rhythm all over again.

157. It is always better not to talk with someone you don’t get along well with or don’t have the right equations rather than confront them and engage in venomous conversations.

158. Never feel bad when someone tells you you have lost a golden opportunity. Thousands of opportunities come and go in the due course of life’s journey. What has gone, has gone. Don’t regret it. Focus your attention on many untapped opportunities.

159. Never ever dance to the dictation of others. You are no joker in the circus.

160 Believe in the miracle of your life’s journey. You will never know when your life will turn around for the better.

161. Despite all the tools available for social connections in modern life, if you have lost connection with some of your acquaintances, then it is for one of two reasons: either those people don’t hold much relevance in your life & you never felt the need to get in touch with them, or you have moved on with your life with your own priorities where they don’t fit.

162 Never carry your anger from one day to the next; it will serve you no purpose.

163, The more you feel the need to show your personal life to others, the more you surrender your happiness and the more you become slave to others’ acceptance and rejection.

164. Insecurity breeds anger.

165. Most of the time, the need for something pushes us to the breaking point.

166. No one can accurately predict the future in a longer time frame because uncertainty plays a huge role in changing the trajectory of the future in an unexpected way.

167. Whenever there are too many people working for some organisation or working to attain a specific objective, there will always be politics and groupism. Backbiting, jealousy, partiality, venomous conversations are the end products of it.

168. Boasting about your experience as the right one only and downplaying or not listening to other versions of the experience is counterproductive as it forces you to live inside a hollow bubble, which will not help you gain broader perspective.

167. The one who is accustomed to the life of a cage, i.e., spending most of their life listening to others’ orders, will never be able to value the beauty of freedom in its true sense.

168. Play only those games in life that you are comfortable with, no matter how much others force you to.You cannot excel while playing other people’s games in life.

169. Once you move forward and commit yourself that there is no chance of looking back, then your forward movement will take you a long distance.

170. When you have lost everything & there is nothing much to lose, that period remains the sweetest phase of life because from that point on, every step, no matter how small it is, is considered a progressive movement for growth.

No matter how much success you get, the pain of failure will never be forgotten. The memory of failure lingers in the mind longer than the memory of success.

172. When someone asks you to follow a path that is against your core beliefs, simply say no. Your core belief is your personal treasure. Don’t ruin it under others’ influence.

173, Never be that person who takes an unnecessary interest in others’ personal affairs. Never be intrusive and learn to give space to others.

174. Most depression comes to mind when we find our life meaningless. A person with some sense of meaning in life can always keep their mood elevated.

175. If you are not mentally trained, an idle mind can bring poisonous thoughts in no time.

176. Jumping to conclusions by hearing or seeing things in bits and pieces rather than analysing how things will turn out in totality is a sign of immature impatience.

177. Living in peace with yourself irrespective of circumstances is only possible if you are emotionally strong.

178. All things are not meant to be understood. Some mysteries should remain untouched.

179 groups define you. If you can’t find the right group, better stay alone rather than unnecessarily trying to fit into the wrong group, which eventually could cause more misery.

180) Let your keen eyes and curious mind question everything and keep on questioning until you are convinced by its authenticity.

181. The world of appearance is not eternal, it is short-lived, and it keeps changing before you expect it to change.

182, Never let your core character slip away from you. It is something that truly defines you.

183. The wheel of time keeps moving at its own pace. It will either stop for you or move faster for you. It neither seeks your permission nor grants you an order. It just keeps on performing its duty.

184. Just like sweet and bad smells fade and eventually go away after being in the air for some time and a neutral smell starts to dominate, in the same way, we must come out of good and bad memories after some time and go back to our neutral life.

185. Write down your thoughts before they slip away from your memory. Your thoughts hold valuable insights that direct your future course of life.

186. Things will change around you before you expect them to change. Whether you are comfortable with it or not, nobody cares. You just need to accept it.

187. To live is to struggle.

The rich are struggling to manage their wealth.

The poor are struggling to find a source of wealth.

Popular ones are struggling with too much attention.

The insignificant are fighting for visibility.

Busy people are struggling for free time.

The Wanderers are struggling to get engaged.

Extroverts are struggling to keep their loose talk under control.

Introverts are struggling to utter a single word.

Married people are struggling for independence.

Bachelors are struggling for company.

The powerful are struggling with too much power.

The powerless struggle to get even a single point of power.

Tough people are struggling to get emotional.

Soft ones are drowned with too many emotions.

Isolation wants engagement.

Fully engaged, they want little time of their own.

Truth is struggling to get acceptance.

The lie is struggling to establish credibility.

Structured life wants insanity.

Erratic life wants discipline.

People who are gullible are more likely to be duped.

Fraud is prone to getting convicted.

188: Not everyone can laugh at their misfortune, but those who do know that no adversity can ever break them, even in extreme situations.

189 To stay up with the rapidly changing world, you must learn to unlearn the irrelevant information, which means letting go of the knowledge-related ego that you have developed.

190) It is wrong to think that, as your circumstances change, your inner worry will also end. You can never fight the inner turbulence by constantly moving from one place to another. Face it, don’t escape it to get rid of it.

191Highly unsecured people boast about their personal success and accomplishments to the world. Truly contented people never feel the need for it.

192. If a bird’s wings are cut, it’s not the end of the world for her; she still survives because she keeps expecting to fly. Never let hope die, no matter how difficult the circumstances.

193, Your arrogance that you have an edge over others is based on a hollow, made-up belief which is like a bubble which will eventually burst. The more inflated it is, the more pain it will cause when it bursts.

194. Flowing water in a river tells us that our duty to keep moving despite all obstacles is a necessity to keep us alive and survive.

195. Depressing thoughts can enter your mind at any time without warning. You always need to be vigilant about their entry,so as they try to sneak into your mind, you must have the resources ready to pull them out with strong will without doing you great damage.

196. When silence is your strength, there is no need to develop an urge to speak unnecessarily when it is not required.

197. While traversing a new path, doubt of “what if”often raises possibilities of the downside more in the head while negating the upside. The one who sees the upside curve more often than others eventually goes far and becomes a hero.

198. If your work makes you angry, either you don’t have adequate competency for that work, you never wished to do that work, or you are letting your personal life interfere with your professional life.

199 Broken relationship is like broken glass, no matter how much you try to stitch it afterwards, it will never return to its original shape.

200 You cannot expect sincerity from someone who makes his/her living by fooling others.

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