This document provides 18 short passages offering words of wisdom and encouragement. Some key themes expressed are: the importance of being kind rather than perfect, focusing on self-improvement rather than comparing oneself to others, using challenges to grow rather than become bitter, and controlling one's reactions to avoid allowing others to provoke anger. Overall, the document advocates developing a positive mindset and outlook on life.

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2. It doesn’t cost anything to be nice.
In fact you get to feel your spirits rise.
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3. If someone says something unkind about me,
I must live so that no one will believe it.
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4. Every great achievement
was once considered
impossible.
I must have confidence that
I am capable.
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5. You shouldn’t compare yourself
to the best others can do,
but to the best you can do.
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6. The great challenge of life is to decide
what’s important and to disregard
everything else.
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7. Nothing of
value comes
without effort
and energy.
It’s time you
put a stop to
laziness and
lethargy.
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8. You can do something in an instant that will
give you a heartache for life.
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9. Generous people seldom
have emotional problems or
problems of the mind.
Their ‘Letting Go’ brings
Peace Sublime
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10. It’s not what happens to people that’s important.
It’s what they do about it.
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11. Even when I have pains,
I don’t have to be a pain.
This I have to ardently train.
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12. Success is more often the result
of hard work than talent.
This important point all have to learn.
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13. Kindness is more important
than perfection.
Trying to be perfect brings stress.
Showing kindness
brings happiness.
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14. Attractiveness is a positive
caring attitude and has nothing
to do with face lifts or nose jobs.
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15. It’s a lot easier to react than it is
to think and respond positively.
Reacting can cause much misery.
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16. When bad times come,
you can let them
make you bitter
or use them
to make you better.
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17. If you allow people to make you angry,
you have let them conquer you.
This is a fact of wisdom, not a view.
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18. The End
W h e n W is d o m
G r o w s In T h e
M in d ,
Yo u ’ r e N e a r e r
To
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin
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