Mindful Monday

There is a time in every man's education 

when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; 

that imitation is suicide; 

that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;
 that though the wide universe is full of good, 

no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him 

but through his toil bestowed on that lot of ground 

which is given him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance