“If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.”

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

True thinking is rare – just like true listening.

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

That’s poetic in its malevolence.

Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.

What you aim at determines what you see.

Worthlessness is the default condition.

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.

Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.

It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.

If you can’t handle today, there is always tomorrow.

Don’t regret what is done in the past. Just focus on the present situation. And, start learning about the things that will help you in the Future.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Learn to take care of yourself will only make you more focused on the future.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

I respect all of the fighters within the sport of boxing, legends of the past, stars of the present, and prospects of the future.

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.