Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.