“Decide, first, to simply be.”
“There's no secret to getting started. You simply decide andthen take your first step. With each subsequent step, the nextone becomes easier...”
“Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.”
“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
“Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.”