The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive. - Vernon Howard

What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?

If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.