Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
Memory Loss Teaches Us All To Cherish Every Moment & Not To Entrance Ourselves in The Repetitive.
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye.
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
I will be stronger than my sadness.
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
Why is the measure of love loss?
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
Normalness leads to sadness.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.
See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss.
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
He carries stars in his pocketsbecause he knowsshe fears the dark.Whenever sadness pays her a visithe paints galaxieson the back of her hands.
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.
In a world where happiness has become a social duty and sadness a public offense, life opens unrepentantly into a kaleidoscopic masquerade and a muddling carousel of faking. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.
Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.
Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.
The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.
It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.
Great losses are great lessons.
Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.
There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.
A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.
You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.
The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?
The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams.
Bullying is overlooked in the worst way. How much does a person have to endure before they break down mentally and spaz out, or before someone suffers a tragic loss?
Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy
Memory Loss Reveals The Spiritually Immature Ideas of Most Past Beliefs & Religions.
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...
Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness
Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.
She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?
When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
Why sadness was created?So we could rest from laughing.
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.
What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.
Die now! For you can never be as happy as you are at this moment and it would be better to die with this feeling in your heart than know the bitterness of its loss.
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.
A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
It is amazing when two people can mean so much to each other. When the happiness of the other person means your own happiness. And the sadness of the other person means your own sadness.
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go
Sometimes life does not give us every thing that we want. But then that is what life is all about. You can't have happiness all the time. And neither can you have sadness all the time. But you can create a symphony out of happiness and sadness!
Wisdom is the beginning of sadness.
Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
The greatest loss is the loss of one’s calling because we were listening to the wrong voices.
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
If you rethink on your decisions, you will become emotional again and that will make you fall multiple times. Always stick to the decisions you made and don't rethink about the losses
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly to the heart.
The resiliency of the human spirit to recover and flourish over devastating adversity has been well documented. No matter how overwhelming the loss or destructive the setback, we rise. No matter how grueling this is, it's no different. We will get through this... and we will rise.
Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.
We need to pay attention to our decisions, for they will determine the losses that we will experience as well as the losses that we will avoid.
At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.
Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.
In the darkall aloneeyes soremouth shuthead bowedthey weepeven thestrongest of themblaming themselves fordeals gone wronglying about being all rightnumbing emotional distressgrieving over lossrefusing any helpYes, men do crybut the world hardly sees.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?
Alexander had been gone twenty-five years, but the passing of the decades had not diminished her grief. There was nothing like the pain of loss to teach a person that time was an illusion.
To lovers out there….Love will always give you happiness. Bitterness , sadness and sorrow you will get that from the people you love.
some days love is likea sweet sadnesssome days love is ahurricane on a sunny day.- mad love is a healer
You must explore your sadness, when you are feeling low...without resisting it or driving it away – hold it up, examine it, deeply reflect on it. Over time, when you will realize the futility of holding on to your sadness, you will drop it on your own, and awaken to Happiness!
She screamed, releasing all the pent-up sadness, humiliation and unworthiness that had been painstakingly eating away at her like moths on clothes.
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
No more sigh of sadness, only breathless expectation at what God's going to do next.
Is it not in the nature of loss that we measure the dizzying intensity of love? And in the hope of meeting again, the strength to go on living?
I am content, but I’m sad. The sadness, it seeps through my hooded eyes.
Often the only difference between victory and defeat; success and failure; or love and loss might be the diligence with which we pursue something.
Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.
I count everything loss for the sake of attaining the higher calling in Christ
Little by little, I took your absence and other losses in my life into a sweet craving.
Every sudden loss is followed by a long appointed finding.
Knowing and being able to predict everything would make life lose its charm. They say that without sadness, we wouldn’t be able to know happiness.
There is sadness and then there is happiness. Happiness does not normally make its prescence felt. You have to go deep and feel the true happiness inside your own heart. Happiness can be our solitude, our loineliness, or a few good friends. You must find your happiness and protect your happiness!
Every second from Life,is an experimental trip,that teaches the physics of our sadness or happiness, leaving a tempest blow.
He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Memories that cease to be painful are still nostalgic and nostalgia made her sad, always about a loss of time.
There are so many losses already, and there will be may more. Renewed generative flourishing cannot grow from myths of immortality or failure to become-with the dead and the extinct. (101)
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.
You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.
Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.
Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.
If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
Desire is much like fire, it is beautiful and mesmerising, but if unguarded can cause great destruction and loss.
Happiness and sadness is like black and white; never stays forever.
Grief as a low-grade fever. His sadness is a hive at the back of his head: he moves slowly to keep from being stung. Things bunch together, smooth endlessly out.
Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Lost money is not lost beyond recall, But loss of time brings on the loss of all.
We can only lose what isn’t ours. Anything that can be lost is never a loss. Anything that is ours, can never be taken away.
Lessons come in all shapes and sizes, sometimes as losses, sometimes as mistakes, sometimes as painful relationships. The goal of the teacher is not to make you fail. It is to make you grow into the stronger and wiser, YOU.
Affliction is not misery. Misery is the abasement of spirit which comes from the loss of God and good.
Some fake happiness, some fake sadness and some fake an orgasm.
Yes, there’s a natural progression to life, but nothing is ever permanent. As much as we heal and advance our lives, there will always be change, loss, gain, and greater learning.
I’ve learned more about love, loss and life in the last two months than I did in thirty-two years.
Sometimes life does not give us everything that we want. But then that is what life is all about. You can't have happiness all the time. And neither can you have sadness all the time. But you can create a symphony out of happiness and sadness.
Now this peasant came petition him an eighth time; he said: “0 high steward, my lord! Men fall low through greed. The rapacious man lacks success ; his success is loss. Though you are greedy it does nothing for you. Though you steal you do not profit. Let a man defend his rightful cause!
If there is such a thing as the business of sadness, what is its 401K plan or how to succeed without really trying.
Even after 72 years of partition, Pakistan is still dependent upon India for both its sadness (when India succeeds at something) and its happiness (when India fails at something). What sort of Independence is this, dear Pakistan?
Fortunately, there is no perfect sadness and there is no perfect happiness, they do have some impurities.
If you learned a lesson from a failure, you lessen the loss from a failure.
Ladies we need to become CEO’s, presidents and bosses, because quite frankly I’m sick of letting these men choose our wins and losses
EUTHYPHRO: The truth is, Socrates, that I’m at a loss as to how to say what I want to say; somehow or other whatever we put forward has a habit of moving around and refusing to stay wherever we try to make it stand.
The ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm is the ultimate foundation of success and strength.
Trying to be happy all the time is the reason of your sadness.
A fact of life is there is tragedy and hope. There is sadness and joy. To ignore one over the other will destroy a person.
You have to take all the rejections that life will throw at you. We do not grow in happiness, but we grow in sadness. Each rejection teaches us something new.
The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.
Sadness can block out the light ,So you have to be faster for the light and if darkness catches up just keep running .
If sadness blocks out the light you just got to run faster to the light and if sadness catches up just keep going
There was something so wrong about war, something so horrific and soul-destroying that she hadn't ever contemplated, until now, as the senseless loss of life crushed her. On one side you were crippled by it; on the other side you were the perpetrator of it. There were no winners
Funny how losses were as much of a currency as happiness in life. Somehow, they were noticed more, though.
Inner-peace is the feeling between happiness and sadness.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
When Jesus Christ is not the Center of our daily lives, we gain only the loss and lose the gain.
The language of loss and the language of hope may, at times, come into conflict as we face end-of-life issues.
There's beauty in the sadness. There's beauty in the joy. There's beauty in the truth.
From anger arises delusion; from delusion, confusion of memory; from confusion of memory, loss of reason; and from loss of reason one goes to complete ruin. ( Chapter- II, Shloka- 63)
With the emergence of this compassion towards others, there is a loss of self-consciousness.
God is great! In times of pain, He gives power. In times of sickness, He provides healing, and after a loss, He can restore what was lost.
There is always a sense of loss, a feeling forgotten. There is nothing else here; no castles, no ancient monuments, no hills like green clouds. It is just a curve of earth, a rawness of winter fields. Dim, flat, desolate lands that cauterise all sorrow.
Sadness was not an emotion anyone felt in Heaven though crying was always expected and normal, especially for those who met Christ for the first time.
Games that are played and sometimes lost,Often bring the joy of loss that learns our course.Valkyrie Kari, Garden of the Dragons, Vol. iii
Every Pleasure ends in Pain... Loss follows every Gain. The ONLY way to Eternal Bliss is Self-Realization.
The best relationships are imperfectly perfect—where you can share your joy and sadness, your success and failure, your passion and lethargy; all with mutual respect, compassion, and love.
As the fresh air brought warm blood to my cheeks, I realised that I had lived through a kind of death. I was alive. I would continue to live. But time and my mother were gone, and my life would now be defined, not by their absence, but by their absolute and irrevocable loss.
Sometimes doing work at own time & pace, kills the timely impact it may have on the result. Needs are time-bound and our decision to time them as per our convenience results in a loss of time & connection with the customers.
The losses that we had came into our lives so we can find each other and help heal each other... you were the only goodness left in my life.
The practice of staying present will heal you. Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in the moment.
I will not live a stagnant life. I will explore the length, depth, and breadth of what this beautiful life offers. Wins and losses, love and heartbreak, laughter and tears... I’m not just here for the victories; I’m here for the scars. I refuse to experience anything less.
Fear is like a megaphone in your head that pulses aggression and sadness. Hope is the audio gain adjuster. Happiness is the musical algorithm.
Why does chemo always have side effects like sickness and hair loss?Why not 'invisibility' or 'spontaneous orgasms'?
…I’ll take the sadness in my eyes and bury it into depthsI’ll withstand with courage, every shadow of my harmful past And I will never lose again, just learn and win...(Excerpted from My kind of resilience, chapter Resilience)
In all that we lose, we rediscover a hidden part of ourselves. Loss is a road toward self discovery because it is only when we are stripped back to nothing, that we realise how truly valuable we are.
It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss.
Once we realize that everything is a show, nothing is real, we come and we go. Then we do not feel misery and pain, for we just watch the drama without loss or gain.
The world is more than sadness
A well-studied loss is worth a dozen mindless victories.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.