So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Make your life a meaningful one

I NEVER SAY I LACK TIME, I KNOW MY PRIORITY PRIME, I BELIEVE KILLING TIME IS CRIME, I WORK EVEN THEY DO CHIME, I HAVE PEOPLE WHO READ MY MIME

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Hades smiled coldly. "Hello, Father. You're looking...young.""Hades, " Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegi

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that?

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.