Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Epictetus

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

Buddha

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Andy Warhol

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson