Wisdom building
So Live Your Life
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble
... See moreOne can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
“Pleasure is the happiness of the fool; happiness is the pleasure of the wise.”
-Jules Barney d’Aurevilly
A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
Alan Watts
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. - John Muir
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose site of the shore for a very long time.”
-André Gide