Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.

All things are manifestations of one thing only.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.