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.
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life. It's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
-Robert T. Kiyosaki
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau
