Both the good and the pleasant present themselves to a man. The calm soul examines them well and discriminates. Yes, he prefers the good to the pleasant; but the fool chooses the pleasant out of greed and avarice.
- Upanishads
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston S. Churchill
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
-Eric Idle
If the mind becomes balanced and detached, and comes to dwell in its own true home, imbued with reverence for the Divine, then it enjoys the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom; it shall never feel hunger again.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
