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.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.