My religion is kindness

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.

-- Seneca

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-- Marcus Aurelius

It is the task of one rightly oriented toward others to draw the circles in toward the centre.

-- Hierocles

The knowledge and contemplation of nature is somehow defective and incomplete unless action follows.

-- Panaetius

It is not learning that makes people good, but practice.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

The beginning is half of the whole.

-- Aristotle