SHYAM

“The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.”
― Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

“The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.”
― Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life

“If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that you are thinking in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not aware of. Awareness must come first.”
― Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh