The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

We can’t control the things or people that are external to us, that happen to us, but we can control our own reactions or way of looking at things, so we need never be completely helpless.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are

You are not at all Ugly; it's just that the mirror is in a bad mood today.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.