The Power of Belief

Life

“Belief” is characterized as “trust in reality or the presence of something that is not quickly susceptive to thorough proof.” But this word can be separated into two separate terms: “be” and “lief.”

“Be” intends to exist or to live. “Lief” comes from an Indo-European word, “leubh,” which means love. The joined word “belief” presently takes on an entirely different significance, which is just “to be infatuated with.” Belief is used to characterize confidence in God or “to be in love with” God. Furthermore, one cannot cherish something without utilizing the heart.

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How to Take Back Your Control of Your Life

Life

In the movie ‘Yes Man’, Carl was taken aback by the painful experience of divorcing his wife that he developed a negative outlook on life to cope. To help, a friend brings him to a motivational seminar that encourages participants to say “Yes!” in every opportunity.

After the which, things took their turn in Carl’s life. When he said “Yes”, even though reluctant at first, he felt “happier”. Otherwise, saying “No” brings misfortune. The movie ends when Carl realized there’s no supernatural phenomena happening to him. He does have control over his choices and he can opt to be happy regardless of the circumstance.

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How Do you Move Forward in Life?

Life

“It doesn’t matter how slow you move provided that you do not stop.”

Life is weird. With its twists and turns, you never know what will happen next. Even when you feel like you are moving forward, something bad happens that sweeps you off your feet.

You hit the hard ground, landing on your butt, with your feet yanked into the air. After a grim struggle, you make it back on your feet. But when you are still reeling in shock, you get knocked down.

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Growing Older

Life

Adapting to change is troublesome, regardless of how old you are. The ultimate test for more grown-ups is the sheer number of changes that they begin to face—including changes to or the end of your profession, declining wellbeing, and even loss of autonomy. It is normal to feel those misfortunes. In any case, if that feeling of misfortune is offset with the right fixings, you have a recipe for remaining sound as you age.

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Five Tips to Develop Your Character in the Right Direction

Life

People tend to confuse character with ‘personality’ but both are very different things. Your character has very specific traits that define who you are, your core beliefs and values. It is a window to a person’s soul, where you evaluate vital characteristics: honesty, courage, loyalty, integrity and virtue. Please note these characteristics cannot be judged easily in one day of meeting someone.

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Memento Mori – A Visual Reminder Of Mortality

Life

Remember “Valar Morghulis” from Game of Thrones? It became the most uttered phrase after the series went viral.

But do you know that ‘Valar Morghulis’ in High Valyrian, which translates to ‘all men must die’ has a Latin counterpart?

‘Valar Morghulis’ reminds us of another phrase, ‘memento mori’. This Latin phrase originated in ancient Rome and has a symbolic connotation to death.

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Gender and Sexuality

Life

Although gender and Sexuality are regularly utilized in regular conversations, gender is not equivalent to sex.

What is Gender?

Gender comprises two segments – our interior feeling of sexual orientation (or gender identity, male or female), and how we express our gender or present ourselves to the world (our sex articulation/introduction).

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Amor Fati - The love of own fate

Life

Amor Fati is a two word phrase, Amor meaning to love and Fati is for fate, which makes it the love of your fate.

Life is so unpredictable and fate puts us in many unfavorable situations, you may feel distressed looking at the problems you are facing, you may lose hope at the point where nothing is getting fixed, you may experience a huge loss in your business, you may get stuck in chaos giving you extra depression.

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