"Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream."
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"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
"in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism."
"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"
"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains."
"This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."
"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."
"Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though."
"I used to walk down the street like I was a super star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth."
"You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity."
"You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there."
"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
"Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought."
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
"What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become."
"If you want to make life easy, make it hard."
"If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much"
"Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going."