You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.

You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.