A love affair with ourselves

Good children know the preface to the story of their parents. 
Bright children go much further, they know the most important chapters of their parents lives. 

Good young people prepare for success. 
Bright young people prepare for the defeats. They know that life is a risk contract and there are no roads without accidents. 

Good young people have good dreams or discipline. 
Bright young people have dreams and discipline. Because dreams without discipline produce frustrated people who never turn their dreams into reality, and discipline dreamless produces servants who execute orders, that do everything automatically and without thinking. 

Good students hide certain intentions, but fascinating students are transparent. They know that who is not loyal to his conscience has an unpayable debt to himself. Do not want, as some politicians, success at any price. They just want the success achieved with sweat, intelligence and transparency. Because they know that it is better the truth that hurts than the lie that produces false relief ... 

The greatness of a man is not in how much he knows, but in how he realizes that he does not know everyhting. The destination is not often inevitable, but sometimes a matter of choice. Our life is made of choices... Who makes choice, write his own story, builds his own way. 

Dreams do not determine where we will get, but produce the necessary strength to get us out of the place we are. Dream of the stars so that you can at least step on the moon. Dream on the Moon so you can at least tread upon the high mountains. Dream of the high hills, so you can have dignity when crossing the valleys of the losses and frustrations. 

Good students learn to numerical mathematics, fascinating students go beyond learning the mathematics of emotion, which has no exact account and that breaks the rule of logic. In this math, you just learn to multiply when you learn to share, you can only win when you learn to lose, you can only receive when you learn to donate. 

A smart person learns from his mistakes, a wise person goes beyond, learns from the mistakes of others, because he is a great observer. 

And If we are wise people and find a great love in our life, we should cultivate it. Because without love, life becomes a river without a source, a sea without waves, a history without adventure! 
But we should never forget, that at  first we must have a love affair with ourselves.

Augusto Cury