Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.