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Continue reading →: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ALBERT EINSTEIN Success takes many shapes and forms. It comes with accolades, privileges, respect, admiration and opportunity. But it does not necessarily make a person of value. Being of value stems from a general sense of another category…
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Continue reading →: Never forget who helped you out while everyone else was making excuses.Have you ever heard the expression, A friend in need, is a friend indeed? I see the world through opposite filters. I have spent most of my life being both. A friend in need and the one that a friend in need comes to in times of strife. A life…
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Continue reading →: Oh life is bigger It’s bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I’ve said too much I set it up That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spot-light Losing my religionOh life is bigger It’s bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I’ve said too much I set it up That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spot-light Losing my religion Trying to…
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Continue reading →: In the end, people will judge you anyway, so in the end, don’t live your life impressing others, live your life impressing yourself.Who exactly are you living your life for? Does it truly matter whether your car is so much nicer and more expensive than someone else’s? Do you have to live in a home that is bigger than everyone else? What are the metrics by which you make the critical decisions…
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Continue reading →: Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.Fear speaks many languages, transcends countless boundaries, and inhabits the minds of most living things on planet Earth. Why then, is our planet predominantly a paradise, and not a horror show? If you start with the primal fear, the one that comes with the fight or flight lizard brain in…
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Continue reading →: I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.Accepting responsibility for our future is a lofty goal. It sounds mythic at first blush. Legendary, even. In reality, it can be grim, debilitating, demoralizing, compromising and frustrating… at a minimum. Why bother? So much easier to get a good job with a future, and aim for the stars and…
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Continue reading →: Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out, but knowledge stays.All of us hope to enable our children to have a wonderful existence, free of trials and tribulations. Sadly, life does not operate like this and we are continually helping them to weather circumstances and obstacles that they encounter in their path through life. Given the materialistic life that we…
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Continue reading →: If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself than for the other person…If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself than for the other person… So you try to bring peace into yourself first. When you are calm, when you are lucid, you’ll see that the other person is a victim of confusion, of hate, of violence…
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Continue reading →: Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground You in mid-air Send in the clownsIsn’t it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground Send in the clowns Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve? One who keeps tearing around One who can’t move Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns Just when I stopped Opening doors Finally knowing the…
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Continue reading →: There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are responsible for our own life. If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.Wouldn’t it be so much easier if we could lay all of our problems at the feet of another and expect that they would rectify all of the wrongs, and make everything right and whole again? Sadly, not only is this fantasy, but it is a bad fantasy at that.…
Hello,
I’m Brian
I believe it is truly possible to change the world, one thought at a time. If anything I have written connects with you, please share it with others. My goal in creating this is to help others with ideas that are thought-provoking, stimulating and cathartic.
Brian Weiner 