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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
Don’t listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.
It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.
I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
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