Princes and paupers

Men who find themselves in the biggest pickles are men who have difficulty giving. They are preoccupied with what they don’t have, dissatisfied, aggrieved, insufficient, chronically wanting. By contrast, givers live like princes.

Three rules for good health

1. Eat less.

2. Move more.

3. Accept what comes.

Contentment, roughly speaking

Contentment is not for the delicate—not for romantics, sentimentalists, moralists, grudge-holders, self-improvers or the falsely smiling. It is to say in every circumstance of life, “This is what I want.”

First, we pass through “Is.” Then we get to “Yes.”

Stoic code

Do not want anything. Do not avoid anything.

The secret of a happy life

The secret of a happy life is a quiet mind.

When the mind is quiet, things fulfill themselves.

We work, marry, raise children and so on, but we don’t huff and puff.