Your best music is still inside you

Your best music is still inside you. – The only way for us to have long-term happiness and success is to live by our highest principles, to consistently act in accordance with what we believe our life is in fact about. That music you hear inside you motivating you to take risks and follow your dreams is your instinctive calling to the true purpose in your heart and mind. Don’t ignore it. Be enthusiastic about all that you do, and the possibilities that lie ahead. Have the courage to pursue your calling. Don’t die with your music still in you.

Stop trying to be everything to everyone

Stop trying to be everything to everyone. – Don’t try to be friends with everyone. Cultivate closer relationships with fewer people. Start focusing on being everything to someone. Helping or pleasing everyone is impossible. But making one person smile can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So narrow your focus and be yourself.

Failures are temporary

Failures are temporary situations that teach us necessary lessons.
– Life’s best lessons are usually learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes.  So yes, you will fail
 sometimes.  The faster you accept this, the faster you can get on with being brilliant. You’ll never be 100% sure
 it will work, but you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t work.  Doing something and getting it wrong
 is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing.  So get out there and try!  Either you succeed or you
 learn a vital lesson.  Win – Win.

Happiness is never constant, and it’s not supposed to be

Happiness is never constant, and it’s not supposed to be.
– You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. To believe that you can reach a
 state of happiness and stay there forever, is like the tide believing she can reach for the shoreline and remain
 there forever; or like a fruit tree believing that if she only holds on tighter, she can keep her fruit from dropping
 to the ground. Happiness is simply a series of moments that come and go and add sweetness to our lives. Learn
 to accept this, and the more happy moments you will have. Read The Happiness Project. - MarcandAngel

Be authentic and true to yourself

"Be authentic and true to yourself. – In this crazy world that’s trying
 to make you like everyone else, find the courage to keep being your
 awesome self.  Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas,
 strengths and beauty like no one else.  Be the person you know
 yourself to be – the best version of you – on your terms.  Above all,
 be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself
 out of it.  No it won’t always be easy; because when it comes to
 living as a compassionate, non-judgmental human being, the only
 challenge greater than learning to walk a mile in someone else’s
 shoes, is learning to walk a lifetime, comfortably in your own."

written by Marc