Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil. - Vernon Howard

Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it.

Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.