No more will you fear conditions or circumstances seemingly outside of you or beyond your control.  Now you know that all that can transpire in your experience is occurring within your consciousness and, therefore, is subject to its government and control.  Joel Goldsmith

Meanwhile, if anyone did dare to ask, the answer would be: I considered giving up.  I thought God was no longer listening to me.  I often had to change direction and, on occasion, I lost my way.  Despite everything, though, I found it again and carried on, because I was convinced there was no other way to live my life.   Paulo Coelho

At certain moments you need to have discipline, and in others you need to just be guided by life.  You have to balance your willpower with the capacity to relax and enjoy and go with the flow.  There is a Zen proverb that says, basically, if you want something, step aside and let this thing come to you.   Paulo Coelho

Tomorrow, and only tomorrow, will I take another step. . .  Until one day, without warning, the road stops testing the traveler and begins to treat him generously.  Paulo Coelho

Just as an acrobat flies easily through the air with no apparent effort, success, when it comes, seems the most natural thing in the world.  Paulo Coelho

It’s a funny thing.  The more I practice, the luckier I get.  Arnold Palmer