As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.