Don't get me started on critics.
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
There is no short cut to a place worth going.