None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
Maybe i would become a mermaid. . . i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up
Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.
Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.