Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Tara Brach

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Buddha

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol referred to in Lao Tzu's writings is the symbol of water.

Frederick Lenz

The ego isn't a real thing, it's just the unexamined mind.

Thibaut

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein