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.

When we hold onto people and material things too tightly, we often find that we lose them. Without the correct balance in life many things fail easily. Often times when things fail they fail as a result of us doing entirely too much. When we try to control relationships by being manipulative or forceful in our ideals we often find we push the other person away so much that they remove their presence, sometimes in both the physical and mental nature.
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Sometimes life can seem very painful. The people who seem to get the most out of life, are those who are willing to smile through the pain, and who no matter what, choose to see the silver lining in each situation. Many of us have always been a certain way for long periods in our lives, and rarely ever force ourselves to see the good in each situation. This is a result of the way we are pretty much trained as a people to think.
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Though in life we struggle, we must not give our focus to the struggle, instead we should look at the benefits of the struggle. Living a blessed life doesn't mean that a person will live without any controversy or without anything to overcome. Living a blessed life is about being able to overcome the thought of everything that can be a distraction in your life by being able to see nothing but what you have been blessed with. Doing this requires a person to dig really deep, to even notice that they are blessed, but this is truly the only way to live.
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You are love is an expression meaning that you are what you choose to be. In a sense if you choose to be love you are choosing to walk in love at all times. Meaning you are choosing to be positive, and make choices in your everyday life that are relative to and the represent someone that walks in love in everything they do. Choosing to be love and to walk in love is not an easy lifestyle to live.
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Picking yourself up and carrying on is a very difficult task to accomplish, but it is a necessary one if we ever want to reach our potential. Life is full of its ups and its downs, and if you allow it to beat you down enough to the point of where you feel defeated enough to not get back up, it most certainly will.
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