Kindle Notes & Highlights
Similarly, you may be a “spoon” person while I’m a “fork” guy. We may have the same purpose, but we can have different ways of pulling it off. Your delight may be my drudgery, while your struggle may be my skill.
don’t focus on correcting your weakness; rather, build on your strengths and let others compensate for your weakness.1
Real purpose must have the element of sheer joy and soul-satisfaction—even if you don’t feel it one hundred percent of the time. A purpose you hate would be self-defeating and would make no sense.
saying by Nietzsche: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
Mother Teresa being quoted as saying something like ‘What God seeks is not our success, but our faithfulness.’
It’s not the mere passage of time that heals. It is how you use that time to reflect on what happened to you, learning to see them through the lens of gratitude, compassion or wisdom.
