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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi

eudaimonia

Of course, there’s happiness and then there’s happiness. Most of us hold in high esteem the hedonic variety of happiness: experiences of pleasure and, often, amassing material goods and wealth. But there’s another kind, called eudaimonia, that rests on the realization of personal goals and potential. The ideal runs in a ragged line from Aristotle to Maslow to Sartre, paralleling Buddhism somewhere along the way. Buddhism asserts that lasting happiness is your birthright. But it doesn’t come from having; it comes from freeing ourselves of mental blindness and afflictive emotions.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tze
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir; once given near forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
Personality begins where comparison ends.
Karl Lagerfeld
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I’d just like to see thinking come back into style.
Timothy Leary
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley