Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!'
Thomas Kempis
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Thomas Kempis