But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.
You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.
No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit.
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.