We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza