Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.