If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

New habits can be launched.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.