We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

You lose only the things you have

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.