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“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.” —Marcus Aurelius

“If you understand each other, you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.” —John Steinbeck

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’” —Shannon L. Alder

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” —Chinese proverb

“Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.” —Vaddey Ratner

“I know only that I don’t know anything.” —Socrates

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose....

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future; and if I am not much deceived, I am the same within that I am without … I have seen the grass, the blossom, and the fruit, and now see the withering; happily, however, because naturally. —Michel de Montaigne

“When you do something you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” —Shunryu Suzuki