There’s an old Native American story:
“On my shoulders are two wolves. One is a black wolf, evil, who continually tempts me to do and say the wrong things. On my other shoulder is a white wolf that continually encourages me to live up to my very best.”
A listener asked the man, “Which of these wolves has the greatest power over you?”
The old man replied, “The one I feed.”
The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy
Whenever you hear a piece of music, or see a work of art or read a piece of writing that seems timeless and which somehow touches something deep inside you, you are experiencing a superconscious creation.
Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
Brian Tracy
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
Irvin Yalom
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin Yalom
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
It doesn’t matter where you are starting from — all that matters is where you are going. Every great life or career is the accumulation of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of efforts that nobody ever sees or appreciates. Great success is the result of countless hours, maybe even months and years, of preparation and hard work toward the goal of becoming very good at what you are doing.
Everything you do or fail to do, counts in some way. A person becomes good at his or her chosen field by improving incrementally, continuously over time. Develop a continuous learning plan for yourself, and dedicate yourself toward getting better and better at what you do.
The Power of Self-Confidence
Brian Tracy
The Enlightenment declared the conviction that the goal of life was happiness, and that if this goal could be attained at all, it was to be found in the here and now, despite the manifold imperfections of earthly life.
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
Ritchie Robertson
