North Star

Perhaps most of all, self grows through self-importance; its antidote is healthy humility. Being humble means being natural and unassuming, not being a doormat, ashamed, or inferior. It just means you’re not setting your self above others. Humility feels peaceful. You don’t have to work at impressing people, and no one is at odds with you for being

The Little Chap Who Follows Me

A careful man I want to be —

a little fellow follows me.

I do not dare to go astray,

for fear he’ll go the self-same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes.

Whatever he sees me do he tries.

Like me he says he’s going to be —

that little chap who follows me…

He knows that I am big and fine —

And believes in every word of mine.

The

Do not demand to be appreciated, but let your satisfaction be the pleasure of others.

– The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein

To raise grateful kids, be grateful for your kids.

– Janice Kaplan (The Gratitude Diaries)

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski