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Choices do matter, for sure. I quit drinking so I could be more successful—and it worked.

“There is one very important point about being happy,” Joseph Murphy wrote in 1963. “You must sincerely desire to be happy.”

“The only things you can really give another person are time or money.”

Remain open. Take the road when it appears. Reject nothing out of hand. What you need, whether a condition or a thing, may arrive in ways that you’ve dismissed, sworn off, or overlooked. I believe this is one of the many meanings found in ancient parables of travelling strangers who turn out to be deities, kings, or supernatural messengers in disguise. They shower gifts upon those who invite them in.

You should be able to be made into an action figure—and be immediately recognizable.” This doesn’t mean presenting yourself in a histrionic manner. But rather having a trademark look, daily uniform, or distinctive something.

If you capitulate to fear you have declared it your highest value.