To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you're sure to be right.
-Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
-Confucius
