“The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.”

“The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.”

“The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.”

“During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement with the world around us. We feel fully alive, full of potential and purpose--in other words, we are completely activated as human beings.”

“I Have Great Faith In Fools; Self-Confidence My Friends Call It.”

“Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.”

“Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.”