So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.

A minister says to me that I am going to hell—that I am bound to be punished forever and ever—and thereupon I say to him: “There is no hell you are mistaken; your Bible is not inspired; no human being is to suffer agony forever;” and thereupon, with an injured look, he asks me this question: “Why do you hurt my feelings?” It does not occur to him that I have the slightest right to object to his sentence of eternal grief.

So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine.

to harm another is to harm oneself

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

In general you must either pamper people or destroy them; harm them just a little and they’ll hit back; harm them seriously and they won’t be able to. So if you’re going to do people harm, make sure you needn’t worry about their reaction.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

are there really people on this earth who deliberately set out to do evil things? Who say to themselves, I want to hurt people, to inflict all the pain I can, to make their lives impossible?

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.