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.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

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

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.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

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