I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Only the educated are free.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.