Xosha Roquemore Quotes

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

Some stuff happened outside of tennis, and it made me realize that you just have to think about yourself, just focus on yourself, and don't worry too much about the other things because they can change very fast from positive to negative.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.