“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. ”

“You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want”

“One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!”

“If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.”

“Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.”

“The fact that you live in a broken-down house in the midst of restoration makes everything more difficult. It removes the ease and simplicity of life. It requires you to be more thoughtful, more careful. It requires you to listen and see well. It requires you to look out for difficulty and to be aware of danger. It requires you to contemplate and plan. It requires you to do what you don;t really want to do and to accept what you find difficult to accept. You want to simply coast, but you can't. Things are broken and they need to be fixed. There is work to do.”