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All of the entries in here are created by the creator unless otherwise stated. 

Entry #1 was from Quora. I found this answer to a particular question helpful to how I can act and learn better.

How can you identify intelligent people?

They ask you questions.When you answer, they ask you more.
When you start using big words, they ask for clarification.
When they can’t understand anything you’re saying, they ask for you to explain it to them as if they were a five-year-old.
When you say something intriguing, they write it down in their notebook or phone.
These people are not naturally more intelligent. They’re better learners which makes them more intelligent.
Why do they learn better?They’re genuinely curious and ask questions from a humble standpoint. I’ve met billionaires who’ve said, “explain it to me as if I were a five-year-old.”
This simple phrase has changed my life when it comes to learning.
As soon as you stop asking questions, you stop learning.
As soon as you stop writing down ideas, you forget them.
The hardest part of becoming intelligent is not bullshitting yourself about what you know; it’s being humble enough to ask questions. If you can do this, then people will see you as intelligent, too.

- Josh Fechter, Co-Founder at Badass Marketers & Founders (2017-present)

Entry # 2  Quora

What is the best gift that somebody has ever received?

   My Dad bought me a brand new Jeep Wrangler when I was 17, but the real gift was what he taught me about life by way of this car. Every month, on the first of the month, I was required to pay him $150 if I wanted to continue driving my Jeep. If I didn’t pay, I couldn’t drive my car (or “his car”, as he often reminded me, since he owned the title). My Dad was (and still is) a successful businessman, who makes a very decent living. To a 17-year old working part-time in High School, $150 was more than I usually had in my bank account, and I often struggled with the prospect of handing over $150 when the time came to pay the piper. Although it was often done begrudgingly and with much complaining, I always made sure to have $150 in his hand on the first of the month, and did so for 2 years.

   The day I graduated High School, my Dad pulled me into his office at our house, and sat me down for a little chat. “Kevin” he said, extending his arm to give me a white, sealed envelope, “here is your graduation present. Although to be fair, this is technically a present from yourself.” I opened the envelope with caution, and almost started crying when I realized he just gave me $3,600 in cash, or the equivalent of 24 car payments that he had been saving for the last 2 years. Every payment I gave him went straight into this envelope, to be opened upon my graduation. By forcing me to pay him every month, he was teaching me how to save, how to manage my money, how to find and hold a job, how to be responsible. My Dad is and will forever be the best man I have ever known.

-Kevin Layton, Sales Manager (2014-present)


from Tumblr

No other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. Love is all about choices. No one is going to be perfect for you, and I think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was "made for you" because it isn't true. No one is made for you, besides you. Other people belong to themselves. If you want to make it work with someone, it's about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and change. 

Reddit Post titled " How do I accept being ugly?" 

Response from a Reddit account:

Ever people watched? More people than not are outside of the current societal beauty standards. You're burying yourself in this because of your own beauty ideals.

Work on who you are and what you are will follow. Start by not calling yourself names, practice walking with your chin up and shoulders lifted instead of staring at the ground or phone, and like the others said be clean and tidy with the things you control like haircut/hygiene or clothing.

Reddit Post titled " How do I accept being ugly?" 

Integrity and a sense of humor can make any ugly person really endearing.

Working in healthcare really drives home how we all end up "ugly" and old at the end of our lives and has helped me look past appearance.

Especially now that I'm older, I've realized just how much of people's "normal" appearance turned out to be a result of some beauty technique. or a looot of effort.

long story short, you really just have to accept how you look. or get plastic surgery or some other body alterations. (no shame in that either, btw. Hollywood and Kpop have kinda been normalizing these procedures anyways).