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49.The best way to honour and cherish is to treasure and remember it at its finest.

50.It is great to be flawlessly felicitous for the moment. It is greater to be relevant always.

51.Blood is the fluid of life. Water is the fluid for sustaining life.

52.Two options to attain greatness and awareness. One, through conspicuous actions .Two, through inconspicuous means.

53.We realise mistakes ...while it?s been made ...after it has been made ...after been informed ...after admonishment ...after been criticised ...after its consequences have befallen us ...before its occurrence

54.Acknowledgement comes while we are here or when we have left.

55.Opportunity is not a one way traffic flow. There are times when others and events create opportunities for us. In our time of need, magnanimity , obligation or circumstantial twists of events, we create opportunities for others.

56.Having an interest in a certain subject covers more than academic pursuits. Practical pursuits come to play too. It can be a possession of something with the potential to augment progress in a particular sector or more.

57.Interest may lead to growth or decline, conception or doom to those affected.

58.When we realise that we are misfits in other matters, console ourselves with our strengths.

59.It is not easy being a perfectionist. The mind has to live up with the demands of the heart?s desire, the form has to toil while the conscience has to answer whether to live with a flaw or eradicate it even if it means more effort. The restless heart searches constantly for improvement. The final attainment and result of work is left for the perfectionist to regard it as worth every iota of distress, sacrifice , struggle and rumination invested or else the set up is undone and rebuilt again.

60.Thinking is the means of marshalling our dormant memory, facts , ideas and dreams while we coax them to form a cohesive logical fluxion.

61.Endurance and Faith are required in the advance into uncertainty for they are our defiant impetus of resistance which pit against tempting surrender.

62.Rational judgment and discretion are imperative in an age when sources of knowledge provide contradictory accounts. It aids those who are bemused and buried in the quagmire of indecision.

63.Seekers seek for ...the purpose of conquering ...the purpose of cherishing ...for the sake of seeking ...in order to destroy

64.Bellicose seekers will be met with opposition while the one who comes in peace will be greeted with cooperation.

65.Public opinion is what society considers you to be. Reputation is what you have done to enable associates , rivals and strangers to consider you to be. Self-esteem is what you consider yourself to be .

66.Artists create ...what they think the public want .... for the joys of creating ...what they think that the public should see ... according to their whims ...exactly what the public want ... or things which will invite controversy ...for the sake of creating ... for the sake of their sanity.

67.It is much easier to yearn and possess than to cherish and preserve.

68.WHAT CAUSES CONFLICT ? Differing points of view and no middle road for both to tread.

69.Actions are impulses and thoughts brought to the physical realm.

70.Curb fears that immobilise us. Value and harness those which mobilise us.

71.Sometimes the way to peace is to just accept the state of things.

72.The ability to adapt, learn , to be adept and improvise are methods used for mastering situations .The ability to amass possibilities are methods of altering or avoiding situations in which we were cast in.

73.We may not welcome old age yet we ought to welcome wisdom from experience.

74.Among us are those who treasure their childhood and wish to be children and innocent. There are those who treasure adulthood .There are those willing to remain in the world of adolescent joys and pain.

75.Be calm if one is as wise as one ought to be. Fear not if one is wiser too. Fear when one is less than one ought to be.

76.Situations influence our mood. We cannot deny that our moods do exist. We are all moody people.

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