on the other hand, we decide that failure is a temporary and necessary step towards success, that we are merely engaging in ‘purposeful failure’, then it is not a personal indictment on our abilities or character. If we can remember that no matter how bad something seems in the moment, no matter how useless and how desperate the situation may

You are the creator of your own destiny because ultimately all the power you’ll ever need is within you already. Your job is to disperse the clouds of illusion so you can manifest your own divinity.

This is why it’s so vital to take one idea and make it your life. As human beings, we have a finite amount of time to live. If we truly want to achieve something meaningful, then we must use our finite time constructively and back that one idea to the end. It doesn’t matter whether we want to be a great golfer, musician, concert pianist or city

Whatever you think you will be, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be. If you think yourself strong, strong you will be.

‘Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.’

‘Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.’

‘Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in

Let us proclaim to every soul: Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Arise, awake! Awake from this hypnotism of weakness. None is really weak; the soul is infinite.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.