Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ››Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves. ››Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ››Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ››Long live eccentricity!
It is the willingness to do things differently that allows the human race to progress. ››The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt. ››What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ››Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. ››You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. ››Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ››People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. ››Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. ››Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. ››Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible. ››The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. ››Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step. ››Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ››Prosperity is a state of mind. It goes beyond money or the things money can buy. It requires you to release the anger, hurt and disappointment of yesterday in order to embrace the goodness in your life today, without fear of the uncertainties of tomorrow. ››Prosperity is freedom, peace, good health, simplicity and love. Prosperity is knowing who you are, loving it and doing what you love. When you think prosperity and act prosperously you will contract bountiful wealth. ››We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. ››It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right. ››Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ››It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. ››And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. ››If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ››Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards. This day, with all the travail and joy that it brings to our doorstep, is the expression of eternal life. Either we meet it, we live it - or we miss it. ››Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job being you than you. ››It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test. ››Luck means the hardships you have not hesitated to endure; the long nights you have devoted to your work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the airplanes you never failed to catch. ››The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. ››The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. ››After A While
After a while
you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't always promises
and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while
you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers
And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong and you really do have worth and you learn and you learn
with every good-bye you learn. ››The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ››You mainly make yourself needlessly and neurotically miserable by strongly holding absolutist irrational Beliefs (iBs), especially by rigidly believing unconditional shoulds, oughts, and musts. ››Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad. ››People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be.... Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit. ››The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ››Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. Strength comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t. ››Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass. ››There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So, keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you. ››
