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 * Personal Philosophy: I want to accept that I am not perfect nor will I ever be, yet I will strive for perfection. I want to accept that I make mistakes, but never regret making them. I want to trust and love others without limit. I want to take advantage of every opportunity life throws at me and make the best of it. I want to have no regrets.**



A huge component of society is trust--not only trusting others, but trusting yourself. People hold themselves back from accomplishing great things not because society restricts them, but because their insecurities and their past hold them back. If people could just push through their past and give themselves a little more credit, more people would be content because they would be making progress in the world and fulfilling themselves. As Henry Ford said, "Whether you think that you can or think that you can't, you are usually right."


 * Focus Question: What fundamental components have made up and currently make up most societies? What happens if one of those components is skewed or absent?**

There are secrets in every corner of this village. Secret dreams and secret desires are nestled in the hearts of all men.

It is no security to a natural man that there is no visible danger in his circumstances. Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, do not secure them a moment.

“It would be prudent to keep our deal a secret. Can you do that?” “Can I keep a secret? Like a church mouse.”



The things we don't want to speak, we try to hold in, but…

The fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in any Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of, all that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will.

IT MUST COME OUT!!!

I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. In the end, people think of themselves first and foremost. Yes, we are willing to defend those we love, but there is a line that we cannot cross. Each person works for himself.

It is not likely that any one besides yourself can be sufficiently master of the facts of your life, or the intentions of your mind. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became the master of my own actions.

Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. People make mistakes and must deal with the consequences, but in the end the most important thing to do is to move on with their lives.

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For some time previous, his mind had been confused, wavering doubtfully between the past and the present, and hovering forward, as it were, at intervals, into the indistinctness of the world to come. How sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place. Why do you look back?



EVERYTHING'S CHANGED, AND I'M CHANGED, AND I CAN'T TELL WHAT'S MY NAME, OR WHO I AM!

The place that I'm from and the place that I'm in, I'll try to get out but I never will. Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. She stood staring at her past and after a second she let it fall on the ground.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

Go thou and work and till; thou shalt prosper, provided thou be just, grateful, and industrious.



I at present think that whoever attempts this aright can not fail of pleasing God, and of meeting with success.

I was supris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. My conduct might be blameable, but I leave it, without attempting further to excuse it; my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them.

On the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.


 * So live, that the passing moments of it have been enlivened with content and enjoyment instead of being tormented with foolish impatience or regrets.**

By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

I did not expect that, but we know that now.

media type="youtube" key="obryFr4Ci28&rel=1" height="355" width="425" A Music Video Using The Fray's "Trust Me"

[|Classroom Scene] (This scene proves that the children must trust their teacher to tell them the truth about "those they do not speak of." Because he is an authority figure, they trust him, only to find out later that what he has been saying is all a fabrication produced by the elders.)

Conclusion: Your past has made you who you are, but it should not dictate who you become. You will fail in life, but if you continue trying, it will always be worth the effort in the end. Don't stifle what is in your heart. Go after your dreams with the knowledge that it can only make you a better person, even if you never succeed. Live your life to the very fullest.

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