Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.

It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead.

People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.

It's not about success, it's about progress.

If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.

Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.