Play Nice

“It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.”
~ Pema Chodron

"If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow."

-- Adyashanti, The Way of Liberation