I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.

We must be indulgent to the mind, and from time to time grant it the leisure that serves as its food and strength.

For the activity of the mind is life

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

Time could be made to serve the mind.

I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
And feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.

The consciousness of a mind disposed to contribute to the happiness of the minutest being … shall afford you a much greater and more heartfelt satisfaction than to be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad's of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

The mind must be indulged, and leisure must be given from time to time, which is the place of food and strength.