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There are days when I don’t put much emphasis on motivational or philosophical quotes at all. Still, overall they serve as a great reminder to reflect upon your current life situation from time to time and therefore bring a particular reality check.
Here are 10 valuable life lessons by some of our greatest thinkers to ever exist:
“Be skeptical of yourself. The human mind is predictably and consistently wrong about many things. We tend to misremember how we felt in the past. We are terrible at predicting what will make us happy in the future. We struggle to be objective in the present.” — Mark Manson
“I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today and whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked there is no reason…
