You can consider this – the whole creation of the Universe, then the world, the history, each person in the past, pretty much everything in the past helped, little or more, so that you are where you are today. It may have been with a purpose or without, but to me it’s very uplifting to consider that the whole past determined, in one way, my presence on Earth today. (I’ve heard this at a coaching NLP class, but it was a thought by someone not in the room, and I don’t remember who it was)

I like this classic quote: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Very uplifting; it mostly refers to a specific situation – getting fooled by somebody else; but, in a broader sense, one can get „fooled” by life; it’s somehow life’s fault if it surprises me with something I’m not prepared for; but the second time, it’s only my responsibility. George BUSH knows this well: