You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.
...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.