Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.