Amor Fati
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Amor Fati
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Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
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It's true. Money has no character, no personality, no values. Its actions only reflect the desires of its owner. Money can build great hospitals and schools, or it can be gambled away or squandered on meaningless possessions. Money may build museums to house beautiful works of art, it may construct beautiful houses of worship—or it may be used to create instruments of war and destruction.
As you build you personal wealth, make sure you build your character by setting aside a portion of your income to help others. Choose a church, a charity, or a cause that you can enthusiastically support. Then give of your money and your time in support of that cause. The primary beneficiary of such noble actions is always the one who gives, not the one who receives.
Napoleon Hill
No one is so good that he has no bad in him, and no one is so bad that he has no good in him.
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We human beings are a complex lot. Many religious writings and great literary works are based upon the constant struggle between good and evil that goes on inside every one of us. This struggle is as old as mankind itself. Yet, while we recognize our own inner struggles, we are often quick to condemn others. Psychologists tell us that there is no such thing as a bad person; there are only bad behaviors.
Make it a point to look for the good in yourself—and in others. Nurture the good character traits and work on the ones that may need improvement. Like plants in a garden, the character traits that grow strong and productive will be those that are fed, watered, and weeded regularly.
Napoleon Hill
If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.
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If you are ever to achieve noteworthy success in your life, you must be willing to stand apart from the crowd. Success is something that is achieved by the minority, not the majority, of people. You will also discover as you climb the ladder of success that there are many who, out of jealousy or envy, will belittle your achievements. Nevertheless, if you have the courage of your convictions, nothing can deter you from your own course. You develop confidence in your beliefs by doing your own thinking and by constantly testing and revising your knowledge. Use W. Clement Stone’s R2A2 Principle to Recognize and Relate, Assimilate and Apply information from any field to help solve your problems and direct your thinking.
Napolean Hill Archives
“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.”
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
The most influential French novelist of the nineteenth century, Flaubert is remembered primarily for the stylistic precision and dispassionate rendering of psychological detail found in his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857). Although his strict objectivity is often associated with the realist and naturalist movements, he objected to this classification, and his artistry indeed defies such easy categorization. Flaubert struggled throughout his career to overcome a romantic tendency toward lyricism, fantastic imaginings, and love of the exotic past. A meticulous craftsman, he aimed to achieve a prose style “as rhythmical as verse and as precise as the language of science.”
("Gustave Flaubert." Gale Online Encyclopedia, Gale, 2021).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Flaubert
A good study of this matter, pics and clips noted in comments from the article, may they help you as you learn and develop this perspective in your life TLR, Amor Fati
Friedrich Nietzsche
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.”
Final Reminder
As the old saying goes, this too shall pass. Learning to love the difficult times gives us even more of life to love. If we wish time to move faster just to get past our challenges then we’re wishing away time that we’ll never get back. Time we could have loved.
Amor Fati
Remember, when things are going bad, there is always a way to create some good from it. To progress from accepting our Fate to loving it, we can choose to view the troubles that befall us as challenges. Challenges show us what we are capable of. In this way, we might even look forward to difficult situations.
https://youtu.be/PSVYo7xpIOI?si=YXbcVvg56G39-pgx
Loving our fate is of course harder when the event we’re faced with is an undesirable one, so let’s focus on that. We might receive bad news, we might make a mistake at work, we might upset someone unintentionally, we might get injured, the list is endless. That’s Fate, that’s life.
If we prepare our own amor fati-inspired response to these situations ahead of time, we won’t be caught off-guard when they occur.
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