Happiness in its purest and unadulterated form is borne out of personal decision. Other factors can act as contributors to your level or frequency of happiness, but ultimately, it is your decision to be happy or not to be..

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Love yourself enough to realise you don't need validation from anyone. Whether someone or people decide not to post you on val, or any other day for that matter, doesn't take away your value. Consequently, your value doesn't increase simply because someone/people decide to post you on val or anyday. Love yourself enough to know that all these don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Loving and appreciating yourself doesn't make you a narcissist, but only proves you know your worth so much so that you don't need to be validated by anyone to feel great about yourself..

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The curse of knowledge is that it closes our mind to what we don't know and as such, good judgement depends on having the skill and the will to open our minds. Perhaps, sometimes you need to doubt your conviction and be open to new possibilities.

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The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs, it is rather to evolve our beliefs.. Some people do research to affirm and/or corroborate their pre-conceived thoughts rather than keep an open mind with a view to learning new things and thereby, evolving.

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Being good at thinking could make you worse at rethinking, and when you aren't good at having a rethink, then it inadvertently becomes a problem. Hence, this is a clarion call for you to always RE-THINK that which you THINK you already know in order to gain new perspective.

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Being good at thinking could make you worse at rethinking, and when you aren't good at having a rethink, then it inadvertently becomes a problem. Hence, this is a clarion call for you to always RE-THINK that which you THINK you already know...

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If you can build yourself to the level where you are not susceptible to peer-pressure, you don't need validation from people to make yourself feel better and you don't need to draw unnecessary attention to yourself to feel "supposedly" loved by people, then you can withstand just about anything that life throws at you, and you'll come out unscathed.— % &

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Beware of perpetual gaslighters. They will ruin you completely. — % &

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The appearance of weakness is the greatest advantage.
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The appearance of weakness is the greatest advantage.— % &

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