An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Who asks a king for a penny?

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.