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‘Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.’
To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.’
When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.
‘In politics, appearance matters far more than truth.
life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.
