“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and unsurrounding yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.