“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”

“Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,—only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.”

“Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru”

“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”

“God himself has made it possible for you to live without the dark place and the pains that rush out and flood out and take you over. Your choice of wanting to see and work is essential to you if you want to get rid of your feeling of emptiness, of futility. You've lied to yourself and said, 'I know what to do to get rid of the pain.' You've never gotten rid of the pain and that's evidence of self-deceit. You have to stop playing cruel tricks on yourself. So stop. Now.”

“…) All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define yourself. All definitions apply to your body only and its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. (…”