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Transformation take time. Practice daily, not perfectly. happiness comes within. And live with intention.

Service create long, lasting happiness in your life. Find different ways to serve others and better if it align with your strength. Service doesn't really have to be something grand, just small gesture.

In relationships, there is care, competence, character, and commitment. Any person, including you, cannot be all four to all your relationships. Determine which which of these categories the relationship you have fall into, and be grateful for the thing that they can offer you.

every energy we put into the world whether it's positive or negative, remember that it always comes back to us. The love that you give out to someone might not come back from that specific person, but comes in a variety of ways and means.

there's this really great analogy about how when you put a spoonful of salt in a water glass. It will taste really bad but if you put that spoonful of water in a lake, it will just taste nice and refreshing. Be the lake not the glass of water. Expand your emotional range, expand your life experience, the pain, a.k.a. the salt will be undetectable

if u think u're better than anyone, think again! if u feel the need to criticize someone, look inward. r u projecting ur insecurities?

treat the mind as a separate entity. The time effort and communication skills you put into it will produce an according outcome. The same way you would pour into a relationship or a project. Tricky part is to balance between discipline of the mind, but without being so hard on yourself that you inhibit spontaneity, and creativity

often times were not really thinking in the now, but thinking forward or backwards. Remembering what we did or worrying about what's to come.

having structure and a routine allows, you the capacity to seek the novelty!

You have to understand your own strengths and limitations and surround yourself with the people that can complement your weaknesses and uplift your strength and you can also do that for other people as well