The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Lao Tzu

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

Michael Faraday

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won't work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.

The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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