Greed enables a person to buy things money can buy while losing the things money cannot buy. Laurence J. Peter A person can stake their claim to any material possession so long as they have the financial firepower to acquire it. However, money and, by extension, all the material possessions it can buy are but Read more…
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee Life is no bed of roses; it is more like a thorny path that we are usually forced to navigate barefoot. And yet, it is these hardships that make both life and success worthwhile.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates Humans can (proudly?) claim to be the most – and probably the only – hypocritical species on the planet. We tend to spend our entire lives pretending to be someone we aren’t. Even more unfortunate is Read more…
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy Contrary to what certain scriptures or books may lead us to believe, we aren’t born ignorant. We are already as enlightened as we could be. All that needs to be done Read more…
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway Cats are arguably the most misunderstood pets – they are often projected as these unfeeling, self-centered animals that are devoid of any love or feelings. We have all come across people Read more…
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Friedrich Koenig Our minds are designed and hardwired to be goal-oriented; we constantly need a purpose in our lives to keep going. While this may not be something Read more…
Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. Sun Tzu If our dreams are our intended destination, then our actions are the pathway to get there. However, there is another aspect to the realization of our goals: our plans, which are more or less the Read more…
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. Anonymous Life is predictably unpredictable. Not even the best of astrologers can confidently foretell what the future holds. Several poets have likened life to a long, capricious river with Read more…
When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it. Charles de Lint There are different roads to success – some long, others not so much. Some roads are arduous and full of hardships, while others are relatively ‘easy’. Read more…
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte War is like a game of chess – it not only teaches one to think their moves over, but also to anticipate and wait patiently for their opponent’s upcoming moves. It teaches us that war is not always about constantly doing something; sometimes Read more…
