We Cannot Change The Cards We Are Dealt, Just How We Play The Hand

Many times the cards that life yields us are just that, and many times our fate is a result of things that happen. One big principle that we are all taught in our lives over and over is that things don't just happen to us, things happen because of the choices we made, no matter what hand we are dealt when we are given our lives.

There have been many of men, men who have come from small backgrounds, and throughout their whole lives stayed in their backgrounds, and never made so much as a peep to change the world. And there are also powerful men and women. Men and women who may have come from small, less fortunate backgrounds, but ended their life richer in more areas than people who were given so much more growing up. Play the hand you were dealt. Don't complain, don't criticize others, just run your race.

They say at the end of our lifetime, we won't regret the mistakes we made, but rather things we didn't do when we had the chance to. Your biggest fear in life shouldn't be fearing losing your life, but it should instead be fear that you didn't live all that you could while you could.
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There are many times in which we take the little things in life for granted, and forget to look at the tiniest of details to allow ourselves to realize how great our lives really are. There are so many extraordinary parts of life, if we just take a little bit of extra time to notice that things really are extraordinary.
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Many of the problems in this world are generated by a lack of care or desire to influence positively in some sort. Many of us who are trying to make a splash in this mass society, in an effort to be noticed, forget that when we do make a splash, there will be ripples caused by the splash we create. Remember that no matter how big or small that you think your role on this Earth is, you have to realize that you are influencing someone somewhere somehow.
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We all fall apart every once in a while. Sometimes falling apart is just what we need to make our lives come together. No one will ever reach a level of perfection without any glimpse of imperfection in his or her lives. What life is truly about is picking up the pieces so that one may continue to not only live a great life, but so that a person may also be able to move past the parts of life that arent so great as well.
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We all have a lack of knowledge or expertise in at least a few aspects of life, even the most enlightened of us all. When we refuse to constantly challenge our beliefs, we refuse to grow, and if we do grow, we won't blossom, we will only grow as straight and rigid as our beliefs.
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