As we clearly sense and name our experience, we can notice what brings it about and how we can respond to it more fully and skillfully.  Jack Kornfield

Don’t take anything personally.  Nothing others do is because of you.  What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.  When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.  Don Miguel Ruiz

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  Oscar Wilde

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.  Edgar Allan Poe

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others.  Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.  Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.  Lao Tzu

I believe I am in Hell; therefore, I am.  Arthur Rimbaud