A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-Maya Angelou
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
-Joseph Campbell
We need such a heart that is serious like the sea and generous like the sky.
-Swami Vivekananda
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.