Becoming the person you want to be always involves work. It requires purpose, dedication, perseverance, and a fair amount of deliberate change.

Work for your dreams and then watch as, little by little, obstacles crumble to make way for success.

Accomplishments don’t just fall in your lap, they first demand a great deal from you—things like study and learning; intentional, arduous work; steadfast determination; ongoing attempts despite failures; personal sweat, blood, tears; and moments of exhaustion. Accomplishments don’t just fall in your lap, the demand actual growth.

Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'.

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.