Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

Most people have the tendency to delay helping or supporting someone, until their help or support is no longer needed.

It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

It takes wisdom to gain wealth without losing health.

In some cases, inheritance is nothing but an act of paying one’s dues with a credit card.