As irrigators lead water where they want as archers make their arrows straight as carpenters carve

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Author: Buddha

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

To understand everything is to forgive everything

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.