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When someone finds something good, let them be and do not take it from them. Don’t be the police of which good things other people should be enthralled with.

If someone has a genuine, harmless excitement about something you think isn’t so important, maybe you should think that person is more important than you do. Isn’t it good enough just that your neighbor is happy?

Be happy with those who are happy. Be with those who are sad. Keep relationships with people different from you. You might never know the difference you make or when you won’t see them again.  · · · →

There is a line with an arrow connecting cause and results. That line is invisible to most people.

It’s difficult to know how to manage a farm, for example, from one year to the next. Every year’s weather is different. The line between good farming and good crops always moves.

It’s always changing, always surprising. We never stop learning how to find the line no matter how old we get.

Some never master the art of learning the line. Success doesn’t occur according to a checklist or multiple-choice test. Life’s line is organic, so must be our understanding of it.  · · · →

The poor don’t how the rich get money. It’s a mystery to them.

To the poor, wealth is a far, distant country on a far, distant continent with a foreign language that they have only heard about in movies and bedtime stories. They fear it, ponder it, covet it, yearn for it, run from it, loath it, love it—but they never know it’s secret:

Wealthy people, the good and the bad, make their money through hard, smart work.

Scaling the walls and crossing the oceans to adopt that truth is as priceless as it is hopeless; yet some do.  · · · →

Near-death struggles occur everyday, everywhere.

Every bead of life in every corner lives on the verge of complete annihilation. Every baby almost dies when born; the mother just the same. Everything that breathes has cancer cells throughout its body; once in a while they even form tumors. Every nation, every business, every family, every friendship—everything fights through life on a precipice overlooking death.

Those battles involve skill and resources, but they are won by virtue—honesty, fairness, charity, patience, diligence, endurance, respect, forgiveness.

In your next near-death battle of the day be virtuous and the war will wage itself.  · · · →