The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence(Baltasar Gracian y Morales)

 1. Constantly work hard and improve yourself.


No one is born perfect. Therefore, you must improve yourself personally and professionally every day until you reach the pinnacle of perfection where your talents and abilities excel.

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No one is perfect from the beginning, and no one can run around right after they are born.

For example, if someone shows great achievements or skills, there must have been countless trials and errors, practice, and time behind those achievements and skills.

As an adult, you must also know that you will continue to experience many failures, frustrations, and wounds, but you will grow as you overcome them.

If you want to develop any ability of yours, you must continue to challenge, fail, and experience in order to fully or completely demonstrate that ability.

Your current self is the result of the trial and error and time invested in the past.

I believe that if you continue to experience in a better direction, you will be able to meet a better future self.


2. You are strong.


Know how to overcome yourself. When you face a big crisis, there is no better companion than a strong mind. Then, when your mind becomes weak, you should receive help from those around you. If you know how to overcome it yourself, your impatience will decrease. You should not give in to fate. 

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I think you should not think that you are infinitely weak and need help.

If you always avoid a crisis because it is difficult and scary, you will only continue to be dependent on someone else.

You are strong.

I have forgotten about it now and am living my life, but I have fallen and got hurt countless times, but now I can walk and run well.

What would you be afraid of if you have grown through experiencing so many failures?

When things get really difficult, you can ask for help from others and take a step further.


3. Your life depends on how you interpret it.


If you had thought about the good things that were painful, they would have become joy. Everything has pros and cons, and it is resourcefulness to know how to find the good in them. The same thing looks very different when viewed in different light.

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I think life is all about how you think.

If you only think about the bad side, your life will seem endlessly unhappy, sad, and miserable.

However, if you think positively, be grateful for small things, and be happy, your life will be infinitely happy.

Even difficult things can become an opportunity to overcome something, and if you think about small things happily, your life can become more abundant.

If you stop comparing yourself to others and think about what is important in your life, what you really want, and how you can think to become better and happier, you can reach the conclusion that you should live positively.

When you meet a negative person, you may feel uncomfortable rather than wanting to help them, and when you meet a positive person, you can also get the result of being happy.

Both negative and positive thoughts have the effect of contagious to others, but negative thoughts stop your actions, and positive thoughts change and make you act better.

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