George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

Right now, it’s like this.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.