You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. That’s the mark of a true professional.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.