You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions?
Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing _ there__ nothing to be done for such people.
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Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing _ there__ nothing to be done for such people.
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