This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve just addressed it “to the editor who can appreciate my work” and it has just come back stamped “not at this address.” Just keep looking for the right address. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Remember, whatever you want wants you. Most importantly, you have to live up to and exceed personally all that you request of another. When I did my list, I knew with the help of my mastermind partners, that I needed to become more of the things I desired and I set to work on myself to accomplish that.
While the inner transformation is taking place, every path must have some outer form to sustain it.
“Most people believe there’s a great conflict in the universe—a conflict between good and evil. Well, the conflict only exists in the human mind. It’s not true for the rest of nature. And the real conflict in our mind is between the truth and lies. Good and evil are the result of that conflict.
A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.
It takes courage to ask for what you want.
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
“It’s like there’s a wall,” I said. “Every wall is a door,” Stacey replied. “You don’t need to be great to get started, but you need to get started to be great.”
“When you get, give. When you learn, teach.”
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~ African Proverb
Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
To see things in the seed, that is genius. ~ Lao-tzu
Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I’m doing the right thing. I’m buying myself peace of mind and that’s the best kind of insurance for my emotional wellbeing.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~ G.K. Chesterton
