Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.