The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Think of your attacks as the ocean during a storm. Waves come and crash. They beat on the sand over and over. Slamming into anything on its way. But then, the storm retreats. The water is calm and the waves slowly come and go. Every attack rises and falls. You either have to hold on," he squeezes my shoulders, "or stop it before the storm comes.

Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…