Consciousness is a congenital hallucination

The benefit of mastering your thoughts is that you become AWARE of what you’re thinking. You no longer have thousands of negative thoughts in a day without realizing you’re thinking them. If we can just stop our unconscious negative thoughts, and become more aware of what we’re thinking, our life will be sensational. If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Start listening to your own inner voice. If it helps, discuss your ideas with those closest to you, but give yourself enough room to follow your own intuition. Be true to yourself. Say what you need to say. Do what you know in your heart is right.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly, and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We need to find the courage to say 'NO' to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

There are generations yet unborn whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take today. You have been created as one of a kind. There has never been one like you and there never will be again. Your spirit, thoughts and feelings, your ability to reason and act all exist in no one else. You have been created in order that you might make a difference.

So it is, life is actually made up of our choices. We are the sum total of them, and if we hold to an attitude of love and thanksgiving for all the good things within our grasp we may have what all ambitious people long for - success. Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world." - Buddha

"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds." - Dalai Lama