The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
-John D. Rockfeller
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.
Good judgment comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgment.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
Leaving everything else aside, you first have to establish communication between
yourself and the supreme power. As soon as the communication is established,
all your illusions will be shattered. And the one who doesn't have any "illusion",
who can stop him from mounting the pinnacle of success?
-Deep Trivedi
No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz