His Holiness The Dalai Lama says: <

‘Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive, I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it.” >>

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox