1. Life is beautiful, even with all of the messy bits.2. There are plenty of things in life that you cannot control, but there are also plenty of things that you can, too.
Focus on what you can control.3. Even when life hurls things your way that you have no control over, you still control how you respond to those things.4. You cannot control other people—please don’t try to go down that road.5. Look for the lesson—sometimes it’s staring you right in the face, and sometimes it’s subtle, but it is always there.6. Everyone can teach you something, even if it’s what not to do.7. Kindness is not a character flaw—it doesn’t make you naive, or innocent, or some other negative adjective that others will drum up to pull you down.
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