And now where are they? Nowhere.Is that what you want to be like? Instead of avoiding all
these distracting assaults—leaving the alarms and flight to
others—and concentrating on what you can do with it all?
Because you can use it, treat it as raw material. Just pay
attention, and resolve to live up to your own expectations. In
everything. And when faced with a choice, remember: our
business is with things that really matter.
- Dig deep; the water—goodness—is down there. And as
long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up. - What the body needs is stability. To be impervious to
jolts in all it is and does. The cohesiveness and beauty that
intelligence lends to the face—that’s what the body needs.
But it should come without effort.- Not a dancer but a wrestler: waiting, poised and dug in,
for sudden assaults. - Look at who they really are, the people whose approval
you long for, and what their minds are really like. Then you
won’t blame the ones who make mistakes they can’t help, and
you won’t feel a need for their approval. You will have seen
the sources of both—their judgments and their actions.