Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

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If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it. ― Frank Sonnenberg

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Thurman

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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. ― Abraham Lincoln

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The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

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To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ― Marilynne Robinson

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That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. ― Aristotle

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. -Franz Kafka

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