Brutal truths in life

1. All truth initially hurts as everybody wants to toy with a lie before they become serious. This explains why there’s so much failure in the earlier stages of life.
2. If you want to succeed quickly, solve human problems that hurt the most. The problem is that most people waste time trying to solve problems that do not exist.
3. Do you know when you started failing? You started failing when you started listening to people who were frequently using the word “impossible” in their vocabulary.
4. Don’t judge people by their color. The human brain is not limited by the color of the skin.
5. Life is unpredictable, painfully illogical, and subtly absurd. Why is it shocking that some of the greatest achievements in history have been accomplished by people who had been dismissed by the cleverest of people?
6. Achieving anything through unethical means seems to push it away from you and appears to pull along with it all that you have gained ethically.
7. Trial and error doesn’t apply to all things in life. For example, putting your head on the tarmac of a busy road will definitely get you killed by a speeding car. The same thing will happen when you go to bed with the wrong person.
8. Some things do not require an example for you to do them. If nobody has ever done it, perhaps everybody else is also waiting to see who will go first. And that might be you.
9. Most people do not fail in life because they started something and failed. They failed because they never started anything in the first place.
10. You can easily tell if a person loves you by their deeds. However, this can often be misleading since there’s no way of knowing if a person intends to kill you.
11. Forgive your enemies but never forget that they’re still your enemies. A leopard can’t change its spots even if it wanted to.
12. Logic is the simplicity of understanding and explaining things, but can never completely explain more sophisticated things. That’s when you must rely on your instincts and hunches by keenly listening to your heart.
13. When people are envious of you this is a clear indication that you are more successful than they are. However, you should be more concerned when there seems to be no one who is envious of you. The amount of envy corresponds to the amount of success you have.
14. Don’t be deceived or quickly get excited when people say they love you. People who truly love you should be ready to fight for you.
15. Follow the road not traveled and you’ll discover one of two things—either there is treasure people aren’t aware of, or there is a good reason why the road is not traveled.
16. Don’t kid yourself that you’re going to get rich or successful without putting in some hard work, sacrifice and dedicated focus. After all, who will be proud of you?
17. Success is both painful and costly. Most people want the success minus the pain and the cost. The result? Failure.
18. Four things should be treasured—a friend who loves you unconditionally, a neighbor who will wake up in the middle of the night to respond to your distress, a friend who is always there when you need them, and a dog that will die trying to protect you.
19. Three things should never be forgotten—your mother who brought you into the world and was there for you until you became an adult, your father who gave her the seed and toiled hard to make sure you didn’t die of hunger, and the total stranger who told you nothing but the truth.