It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.

Revenge-seeking minds destroy states, while those seeking reconciliation build nations.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.