The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
-Anonymous
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to the king. Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others that you may rise well.
-Rumi
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
-Paul Scherer
To show compassion to the wicked is to oppress the righteous; to pardon oppressors is to tyrannize the oppressed.
-Sadi
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
-Ken Keyes Jr.
If you keep thinking "That man has abused me," holding it as a much-cherished grievance, your anger will never be allayed. If you can put down that fury-inducing thought, your anger will lessen. Fury will never end fury, it will just ricochet on and on. Only putting it down will end such an abysmal state.
-Sunnata Vagga
The power of choice must involve the possibility of error--that is the essence of choosing.
-Herbert Samuel
The deeper a sand-well is dug the freer is its flow of water.
Even so, the deeper a man's learning the greater is his wisdom.
-Tirukkural