An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself..

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach….

A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again….

To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west..