The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them