Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

You have to work to take care of yourself and what you want in this moment but then there's you tomorrow, and there's you next week and there's you next month the next year, ten years from now and when you are old... So because you are self-conscious and because you are aware of the future you are actually a community unto yourself. And if you are selfish and impulse all that means is that you are serving the person you are right now in that impulsive way but not the person you are going to be. That's not a good ground for any sort of ethical behavior

Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if magnified beyond its proper limits becomes pathological

Let down the barriers, take down the walls

Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening. So let down the barriers. Take down the walls. The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness. Let life touch you, don't let it kill you but let it touch you

If you don't get your act together then you leave a little space for hell