Observe What Is With Undivided Awareness.

Cease Negative Mental Chattering. If You Think A Thing Is Impossible, You'll Make It Impossible. Pessimism Blunts The Tools You Need To Succeed.

We Are Told That Talent Creates Opportunity, Yet It Is Desire That Creates Talent.

I'm Not In This World To Live Up To Your Expectations And You're Not In This World To Live Up To Mine.

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

To Me Defeat In Anything Is Merely Temporary. Defeat Simply Tells Me That Something Is Wrong In My Doing; It Is A Path Leading To Success And Truth.