How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I was walking along Tinker Creek and thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame. I stood on the grass with the lights in it, grass that was wholly fire, utterly focused and utterly dreamed. It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
Henry David Thoreau·1849Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
ChanakyaOur bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
Chanakya·-300 ADAccumulated wealth is saved by spending, just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
