Chinese principle
With money,
You can buy a house,
Not also a home.
You can buy a bed,
Not also the sleep.
You can buy a watch,
Not also the time.
You can buy a book,
Not also the knowledge.
You can buy a position,
Not also the respect.
You can pay a doctor,
Not also the health.
You can buy the heart,
Not also the life.
You can buy sex,
Not also love!
In life, it isn't important to have good cards, only to play well those you've got.
About beauty:
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace depend on Simplicity." (Plato)
About achievements:
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
(Walter Bageholt)
About ability:
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
(Elbert Hubbard)
About appreciation:
"Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle."
(Dan Wakefield)
About belief:
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it in the beginning." (Mahatma Gandhi)
About change:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
But no one thinks of changing himself."
(Lev Tolstoi)
"Nothing is permanent but change."
(Heraclitus)
"Be the change you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi)
"We cannot resist change,
But we can choose the direction of change." (Kennon Callahan)
"God grant me the sincerity to accept the things
I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference." (Reinhold Niebuhr)
About creativity:
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world.
And that is an idea whose time has come."(Victor Hugo)
About friendship:
"Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."
(Albert Camus)
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you."
(Paramahansa Yoganada)
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
(Henry Ford)
"What is a friend?
A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
(Aristotle)
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
(R. W. Emerson)
"Whishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." (Aristotle)
About heart:
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."
(Deepak Chopra)
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in
return." (Maria Edgeworth)
"Few are those who see with their own eyes
And feel with their own hearts." (Einstein)
