"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power" Lao Tzu
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“as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.”
— Unknown
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“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”
— Unknown
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Forgiving the Past
A big problem with getting older is that your past gets longer and regrets accumulate. Although many regretful moments are mercifully lost to the fog of memory, some remain vivid over decades. Big and small, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, ill-advised things we did and said or didn’t do and didn’t say return to us through the years, jabbing us again with a fresh dose of regret and self-reproach. In those moments, we get sucked back into earlier versions of ourselves and relive the experience as both actor and a helpless observer who, through the benefit of time and experience, knows how it might have gone differently. Sometimes, when I step into one of those puddles of my past, I will catch myself scolding my younger self, even hurling insults like, dumbass!, twenty five years or more after the unfortunate event.
To be able to look back on a past event from years in the future and to recognize how you know things now that you didn’t know then, demonstrates a degree of personal growth. It is the wisdom that comes from making so many mistakes over a long lifetime...read more
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The legacy remains…


Legend! 🙏

⚽️ 1279 goals
🏆 3 FIFA World Cups
🏆 6 Brazilian league titles
🏆 2 Copa Libertadores
🎖️ FIFA Player of the Century
🎖️ TIME 100 Most Important People of the Century.
Rest in peace the greatest of all time GOAT. 🐐🇧🇷
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