The indispensable first step to getting things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -Ben Stein (pg. 2 Chicken Soup for the Soul Living your Dreams)

You want to set a big enough goal so that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming. Advice from Jim Rohn (pg. 5 Chicken Soup for the Soul Living Your Dreams

Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen. (pg. 6)

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong (pg. 35 Chicken Soup for the Soul Living your Dreams)

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford (pg. 68 Chicken Soup for the Soul Living the Dream)