Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Dreams are powerful they are structural tension, pulling you like a stretched rubber band between your perception of current reality toward your vision. Like an artist is inspired and energized to create the envisioned picture. This is the basis of intention that works, almost irrespective of the state of mind of the creator...
Bad news is: You cannot make people like, love, understand, validate, accept or be nice to you. You can't control them either. Good news is: It doesn't matter.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
You've got to stay positive. For example, the other day I fell down the stairs... instead of getting upset I just thought, 'Wow, that's the fastest I've moved in years.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.