5 Life Lessons To Learn From Pericles

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If you want to grow, if you want to get ahead in your life, 
you must make learning your BEST friend.
You can start with these life lessons from
Pericles, he was a Greek politician

Human beings are fragile
"Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly,
but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."

Freedom is not free
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone
who have the courage to defend it."

Your legacy matters
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others."

Happiness depends on freedom
"Make up your mind that happiness depends on being free,
and freedom depends on being courageous."

The future is unknown. Be brave.
"But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what 
is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet 
notwithstanding go out to meet it."

“Why Are We So Busy?”

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“Why are we so busy?” “Because we run out of space.” Because we want to make people happy. Because we are out of self-control, out of self-mastery, out of self-management. If you want to be really productive, you must slow down. You must NOT follow the crowd. You must follow yourself. You must believe in yourself.

But you can do something about it. You can change it. You can live your normal life. You can be you, not others.

You are busy when you are trying to live your life like other people. You are busy when you do not even know what you represent. You are busy when you are trying to fit in.

It pays to be you. If you have the courage to do it. Off course, you do. How? In his book, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Nothing = Have Nothing, Neil Paricha asked, “What’s the secret step we can take to never be busy again?” The answer is, according to Neil Paricha, “Create Space.” He continues: “Creating space is the secret step to freeing yourself from the oppression of your busy life. … Creating space means injecting space into your life so you can properly live it.”

Yes, we are busy. But do not let it take over your life. Yes, we live in a busy world. But if you are not careful, it will take over your life, your peace.

When you are busy, you are out of your balance. When you are busy, you are not in control of your life. When you are busy, you are not in control of your own thoughts. When you are not in control of your own thoughts, then you are not in the right state of mind.

Busyness is crazyness.

If you want to achieve greatness in your life, you must slow down. If not, you are not going to achieve anything in your life.

When you are out of balance, you are out of life. Why? Because we die slowly. Because we die every day.