What other people think of me is none of my business
-- Wayne Dyer

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What other people think or say about you is only relevant to you if you choose to make it relevant. Each person's thoughts and words, regardless of whether the subject is you, are their own baggage. To improve ourselves, to elevate our own consciousness, we must pay attention not to how others feel about us, but about how we feel and what we say about others. You won't get anywhere in life carrying other people's baggage around in addition to your own. Instead look at your own thoughts, your own baggage, and make a conscious effort to empty it whenever possible. Make a conscious effort to lighten your own load, and your own journey will become much more effortless.