People who made certain kinds of explanations, he believed, are prey to helplessness. - Martin E P Seligman

If you want to blame your parents for your own adult problems, you are entitled to blame the genes they gave you, but you are not entitled — by any facts I know — to blame the way they treated you.

Isaiah 6:8 comes back to me: “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!

It turns out, however, that how much life satisfaction people report is itself determined by how good we feel at the very moment we are asked the question. Averaged over many people, the mood you are in determines more than 70 percent of how much life satisfaction you report and how well you judge your life to be going at that moment determines less than 30 percent.