| being alone | to like myself. |
| failure | I only fail when I don't try. |
| success | I had to try, in order to be happy with myself. |
| peoples' opinions | people would have opinions about me anyway. |
| rejection | to have faith in myself |
| pain | it is necessary for growth |
| truth | the ugliness in lies |
| life | its beauty |
| death | it's a beginning not an end |
| my destiny | I have the power to change my life |
| hate | it was nothing more than ignorance |
| love | it touched my heart, making darkness fade into endless days |
| ridicule | to laugh at myself |
| growing old | I was gaining wisdom every day |
| the future | life just kept getting better |
| the past | it could no longer hurt me |
| the dark | the beauty of the starlight |
| the light | the truth would give me strength |
| change | every butterfly had to undergo metamorphosis before it could fly |
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If I focus on a problem,
the problem increases;
if I focus on the answer,
the answer increases.
-- BB p.451 (3rd Edition)
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