contemplating

i have this heavy heart these days for some unfathomable reasons. so to fight it, here are some morsels of life's lesson. hope i'd be able to brighten up not just my day but also my readers' (hehe, as if ang dami...)

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Your mind becomes impressed with your self-estimate, and your convictions govern your actions. You small estimate of yourself will make a pigmy’s impress upon your conviction and you will be barred from doing the work of a giant. You must think yourself a giant before you can do a giant’s work.
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“Once you start accepting mediocrity in your life, you become a magnet for mediocrity in your life.”

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A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying. -- meredith grey