When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Ask yourself at every moment. Is this necessary?

Don't ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself how well you loved and then grow from your answer. Repeat for a lifetime.

Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’

Ask yourself for a moment what is really important to you—not by anyone else's definition but your own.

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

We’re asking for universal suffrage, we’re asking for democracy, we’re asking for freedoms. I ask myself every day if I’m doing enough, so that I won’t feel guilty about the fact that I get to enjoy these freedoms and privileges when my friends and my colleagues cannot. And have I been utilising every moment that I have freely? Do I take breaks responsibly? Do I work hard enough? Do I spend time for myself? And so on. These are all very important questions that you have to ask yourself when everything is going wrong.

Very small things accumulate until they define your larger life. Carefully choose your everyday things.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

Each time you sit down to practice, take a few minutes to feel in your heart why this is important to you.

The measure of how much you love something is what you sacrifice for it.