It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
Seek His face and not His hand.
When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.
We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.
Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on
We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.