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Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.