The greatest advise I have ever gotten as regards to people intent on wallowing in the "three poisons"---greed-anger and mendacity--- was   " Fuck 'em--let 'em wait ! TP

The choices we make reveal the nature of our character.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort, to avoid the real labor of Thinking.

This is a Great Line!

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
- New York City detective

...the whole universe...

"A human being is a part of the whole universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein

Striving

In any controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Buddha

Men Judge

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. Niccolo Machiavelli