Wisdom
If you do the right thing for the wrong reason, the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self-destructive.
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." — Lucy Larcom
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward
What we see is sometimes not what is actually there. Or, in the words of Sherlock Holmes: “We see, but we do not observe.”
Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
– Unknown
"The first wealth is health." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you ask other people about every decision you make, you're going to end up doing exactly what everyone else does and getting the same results that everyone else gets.”
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.