I have a strong desire to highlight books. It's a little nuts, and I never do it, but I think I will start saving passages. Below are the two that have caught my eye from what I'm reading at the moment. I'll probably add to them as I read more.

The external world tends to oblige us by reinforcing our beliefs about it. For example, people who see themselves as victims get victimized. Further, even when the world does not mirror us, we see only those aspects of the world that fit our current scripts, ulness, that is, we are developmentally ready to move on.

Our experience quite literally is defined by our assumptions about life. We make stories about the world and to a large degree live out their plots. What our lives are like depends to a great extent on the script we consciously, or more likely, unconsciously, have adopted.