It's through our own actions that we take what other people did, said, or even what we think they thought, and turn it into our own private heaven or hell

"The Buddha says that you don’t go to heaven or to hell because of other people’s actions. Yet all too often we find ourselves in our own mental heaven or hell because of what someone else did. Actually, though, we’re the ones who create that heaven and hell. It’s through our own actions that we take what they did, what they said, or even what we think they thought, and turn it into our own private heaven or our own private hell."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Other People"

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