Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.