"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself."
--Lao Tzu
"Give your attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. There’s the past in you in. If you can be present enough to watch all those things, not critically or analytically but non-judgmentally, then you are dealing with the past and dissolving it through the power of your presence. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present."
"Life is not a task. There is absolutely nothing to attain except the realization that there is absolutely nothing to attain."
--Tony Parsons
"The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most."
"It is senseless to be physically fit and have a broken spirit. You can’t cover up shattered self-esteem with makeup, haircuts, and manicures. Face yourself and get healthy from the inside out."
"Facts are what we must completely let go of if we want to be happy. We must decide to fly above the turmoil if we really want to fly above it. We must ignore, maturely not immaturely, a whole realm of so-called meaning. As long as our self-identification centers around what we call the real world, no profound happiness is possible. Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation—not worldly things but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke."
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it."
Nothing here specifically reflects on someone unless I call them out by name. Instead, it is just a collection of stuff I think is funny, or find interesting. If you are offended, that is about you and not about me.