The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best."

-- Epictetus

Don't go with people who put you down.

How would you perform in an environment that people around are trying to put you down?

Integrity

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

-- Richard Buckminster Fuller

You must be successful to earn integrity.

What should we do to become successful?

Though I might travel afar

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry
with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are
only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its
condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

-- Kirsten Zambucka 

We are affected or affecting our environment, what we have is what we have acquired. Let us change ourselves to change the world.

Have you gone to a place that you haven't change?

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

-- Henry Van Dyke 

Life must not be taken for granted. It can sustain but can't hold on. Time is valuable as life.

How do we use our life?

Everyone has special talents

"Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours
and use them well."

-- John Templeton 

We have given talent, but doesn't  use it. Because we don't explore the different purpose of it. If we only use every talent we have, it is enough to sustain our needs.

When will we motivate ourself to use and show talent?

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm
and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

-- Jawaharlal Nehru 

We must take the opportunity to roam around and appreciate the presence of every gift that are around. Never miss the opportunity because we will not stay here for long.

How do we take the given opportunity for us?

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that
one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won't."

-- Henry Ward Beecher 


Is it possible that perseverance and obstinacy goes together?

You cannot run away from weakness

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight
it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where
you stand?"

-- Robert Louis Stevenson 



Is it proper to disregard your weaknesses?