"Oscar Wilde said: 'Each man kills the thing he loves.' And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all who have failed to get what they want and feel we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lot of people who, when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a series of stupid mistakes, and never reached their goal--when it was only a step away."
From: The Alchemist, By Paulo Coelho
I suppose each of us has managed to get in the way of our own success in life. I think of more than a few occasions when I was my own worst enemy--just the self-defeating thoughts that we carry around in the back of our mind are enough to de-rail our quest to find and be who we really are.
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