The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

If somebody at work is a problem for you, they’re not the one who needs to change. If someone is a problem for you, it’s you who needs to change. If you feel they’re causing you trouble, that’s your problem. It’s on you. Your job is to clear yourself.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.
“Who cares about everyone? What about <i>me</i>?

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!

Idiot, that’s his concern – don’t concern yourself with other people’s business. It’s his problem if he receives you badly.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

If I won't be myself, who will?

Our preoccupation with other people - whether we aid or hinder them, love or hate them - is at bottom a means of getting away from ourselves. It is strange to contemplate that competition with others - the breathless race to get ahead of others - is basically a running away from ourselves

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

The Master said, “Do not worry that other people do not know you. But be concerned that you do not know them.