You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.