When you meet someone better than yourself,
turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.
When you meet someone not as good as you are,
look within and examine your own self
Confucius

I look at the world, and there is nothing to think... nothing to say...
nothing to do... nothing to feel... but gratitude.

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Never mistake motion for action.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities,
but in the expert's there are few.

The eye, with which I see God, sees me;
my eye and God's eye is one eye, one seeing
one realizing and one love

Heaven never helps men who will not act.
Sophocles

Restless man's mind is,
So strongly shaken
In the grip of the senses...
Truly I think
The wind is no wilder.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anonymous

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness...
I see what people call God in all these things.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates
the mysteries of ...