Guard your time and your thoughts

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

~ Carl Sandburg

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

~ quotes about Confidence by Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970 Personal Growth and Self Development
(the moral is don't give space in your head to your enemies - K)

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

~ Unknown

Life's Challenges

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~ Seneca

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
~ Carl Sandburg

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
~ George Eliot