Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
		-- Oscar Levant
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
		-- Socrates
He has shown you, o man, what is good.  And what does the Lord ask of you,
but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly before your God?
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
		-- Sir Richard Burton
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
		-- B. Franklin
He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than
three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked.

when there is no longer anything to take away.
		-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
		-- John Keats
Push where it gives and scratch where it itches.
Reality always seems harsher in the early morning.
Reality does not exist -- yet.
Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?
		-- Patrick Sky
Reality is for people who lack imagination.