Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.