Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

The saying urges a deliberate shift in attention from anxiety and regret toward aspiration and possibility. By contrasting “fears” with “hopes and dreams,” and “frustrations” with “unfulfilled potential,” it frames the inner life as a choice of orientation: one can rehearse past failures or invest energy in future action. The repeated “Consult/Think/Concern yourself not…” has the cadence of pastoral counsel, encouraging resilience and moral agency. In a religious context, it also aligns with a theology of hope—human life as open-ended, capable of renewal—though the sentiment is broadly applicable as secular encouragement to focus on what remains doable rather than what has gone wrong.