Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.