The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.