You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Develop a mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect poise of mind: follow calmness, the absence of pride.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.