There's nothing wrong with being selfish,
especially when being selfish allows you
to grow so that you can give more of
yourself. Life is like an airplane that has
lost cabin pressure. If you do not put your
oxygen mask on first, you will not be able
to help someone else get theirs on as well
as you would like.

Failure is an important part of success.
We are taught early on that failure is bad,
yet your last failure is your best teacher.
Babies learn to walk by failing. They learn
to speak by saying something wrong, and
being corrected until they get it right. To
learn to ride a bicycle, you must fall, get
back on it, fall again and just keep getting
back on until you have mastered your
balance and you never fall off. Failure is
good. Failure is your friend. Learning to fail,
is learning to be successful.