To read and to not have been changed in the reading is to have picked up a book without it ever having picked you up.

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them.

Even if yesterday was wildly successful, I still don’t want to repeat it. Rather, I want to build on it.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

Mistakes are the enemies that I’ve made of them because I’ve chosen to believe that they are the stuff of my ruin instead of the ingredients of my success.

It is in the defeat that we find the ingredients for the next success.

Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.

Don’t think for a moment that there’s nothing to be learned from the people who’ve failed us. For some of the greatest lessons that we’ve been granted are from those who showed us how ‘not’ to do something. And we’d be wise to remember that some of those people are us.

How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.