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4. Youth
Perennial Youth
It is necessary for preserving perennial youth that you should never allow any kind of weakness, disappointment or frustration to come to your mind. Mental weakness is more injurious than physical weakness. Ever-fresh zest for life is perennial youth, and it belongs to the mind, not to the body.
Challenge
If tempests are coming, let them come. Why should I fear them ? I am not a frail flame of candle that may be put out at a soft breeze of the wind. I am a flaming fire that burns all the more powerfully by the gusts of wind, that advances forward, flaming and lighting others. I heartịly welcoine sufferings and hardships. Let all sufferings, all hardships, all obstacles and failures come in my life. They will all prompt me towards success rather than bend me,
Dauntless Action
Action is supreme. Dauntless action is the mightiest power. You cannot even eat your food without raising
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