All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
A leader is someone who compels others to positive action by the power of their own positive action.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
Life is a maths equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.