We have to master our thoughts. For much of our lives, we live with it. We don’t need a guru or psychotherapist to tell us the same. We are as we think. That is why before earning fame, money, or glitters, we need to work on our thoughts.
Benjamin Franklin talks about affirmations so are most philosophers for daily living. I liked this poem by William Ernest Henley.
“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
Poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)