"Try to realize ...."

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

John Lubbock

On learning

At fifteen, I set my mind on learning.  At thirty, I stood firm.  At forty, I had no doubts.  At fifty, I knew heaven’s commands.  At sixty, my ear obeyed the truth.  At seventy, I followed what my heart desired – without transgressing what was right.

Confucius

"They ask 'What make you happy ...."

“They ask ‘What make you happy’

And I answer  ‘A field of flowers

to make me gentle,

A few kind words

to keep me warm,

The mountains, sky and sea

to help me look beyond and far

and people, all sorts of people

to keep me alive.’

And they ask ‘What then make you sad’

And I say  ‘For now I am happy,

I do not know sadness,

I have forgotten what is sadness.’”