Challenges And Hindrances In Mark Twain's 'American Writer'

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The Two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain (American Writer)
• The quotes said that there are two important days in our life. First, the day when we born and we need to thank God for giving us a chance to live to live and see his amazing creation. In this life, we tackle a lot of challenges and hindrances in life that can make us stronger by the help of Faith on Him. Because He has a plan for us, and that’s the second important day that we need to find out why we are here and what’s our purpose in life.

• I can relate it to myself as a person and child of God. Of course I am glad to born and I’m very thankful. I have many questions about myself and examples of these are why
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He simply wants to be with us and feel that we are with Him no matter what and to feel our love for Him is not fading away. We need to have a time to repent and talk to him and also have a time to him.

• This quote relate to our lives as his sons and believers. There are many challenges given to us that we cannot overcome on our own. More of the times, we ask God for help and at the same time, we pray for our guidance and blessings. But worse we question Him by the mistakes that we’ve done. We need to feel his unconditional love and be optimistic.

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.” – Rabbi Saul Bellow (American Writer)
• For me this quote is like an eraser literally. Our life is not made perfectly, we do mistakes sometimes but there are the times that we need to correct the mistake that we’ve done. The important is we need to learn from our mistakes.

• We are created alike, yet we are not perfect because only God can fulfill us. Mistakes can be coz we are only humans, we are not created perfectly but we can be productive and change for the better us. We can’t be immature forever. As we grow, we must get rid of our childish ways. It is ok to be fool but do not too

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