The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.