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“The prison of your mind has no locks—only the illusion of them.”

“You are not stuck with the brain you were born with; you are stuck with the excuses you make for not changing it.”

“Your potential isn't hidden—it's buried under years of 'I can't' and 'what if.' Time to dig.”

“Seven days can't change your past, but they can rewire your future.”

“Every breakthrough begins with breaking the thought patterns that hold you back.”

“Change isn't about becoming someone new—it's about removing everything that isn't authentically you.”

“Emotional mastery is not about never feeling, but about responding with intention.”

“My memoir was intended to be a learning experience, by sharing my own personal growth, and the potential impact it has for the growth of others. I intend it to be a lived learning experience for other people in my situation: this is what I experienced, and this is how I felt, and take from this what you will. Because that’s how to learn.”

“You should listen to how often other people pause, take a quick breath, and go on with their sentence. (This is not that easy. You are accustomed to listening to what people say and not the behavioral details of how they say it.) You'll see how normal and easy the quick breath is. Try to imitate someone who seems to have good control of their phrasing and air supply. Be especially mindful of the ease of hearing the words at the end of their sentences.”

“The past should never serve as an encumbrance, but we must exploit our experiences as learning assets. The only importance of any experience is to test oneself. Worthy challenges, fused with humility of spirit, enrich a person’s character. One must harvest the grain from their effort and discard the shaft. Before moving onward, it is critical for me to look back and remove any negative predilections that accumulated from days gone by that might mar, stunt, or otherwise arrest future personal development.”

“Her new world had no telephones, internet or indoor plumbing. The customs were bloody and the laws were harsh. A man who tried to hurt a child faced a horrifying death. Women were not allowed to fight, because it wasn’t women’s work. Men were supposed to kill and die. That was what they knew. In the world she had come from, everything was convenient, people felt safe most of the time, and if anyone died protecting a child it was likely to be a woman. Which world is more honest?”

“I am not defined by what tried to break me—I am defined by the woman I chose to become.”

“Destiny rewards the cultivated. Be the one who’s ready before the room knows it needs you.”

“Each of us must use self-scrutiny in order to ascertain how to immerse ourselves into prevailing culture and develop personals skills and survival mechanisms in order to cope with all the paradoxes and complications of a chaotic world. We cannot gauge the equipoise of our emotional health by examining the columns of numbers representing money earned or sums owed on a financial balance sheet. We must periodically take stock of our character assets and personality liabilities. Maintaining a permanency of felicity lodged in our lightsome soul might be the most important asset besides physical genetics that we will ever possess. Unlike our genetic disposition, we are the sole sentinels of our emotional health.”

“We cannot change what we don’t acknowledge. We cannot conquer what we don’t confront. If we don’t deal with it, it is certain to deal with us. This is where many often get derailed, disabled, and eventually defeated.”