Love yourself and be awake

Love yourself and be awake-
Today, tomorrow, always.

First establish yourself in the way,
Then teach others,
And so defeat sorrow.

To straighten the crooked
You must first do a harder thing-
Straighten yourself.

You are your only master.
Who else?
Subdue yourself,
And discover your master.

Buddha

The ugly & the stupid

It is better not to be different from one’s fellows. The ugly & the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease & gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, & without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands…we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde