Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
You are free to choose, even if you choose not to.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!
Bad boys do get the girls.
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?