Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.