Action and habit
<i>Watch your thoughts, for they become words.</i><p><i>Watch your words, for they become actions.</i><p><i>Watch your actions, for they become habits.</i><p><i>Watch your habits, for they become your character.</i><p><i>Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.</i><p>Under the guise of being a piece of wisdom, this, to me, sounds like a healthy recipe for going insane. Watch your thoughts? Indeed. Might as well try to bite your own teeth.<p>The world becomes a lot more fun and easier to deal with once you stop trying to control everything and realise that things tend to work pretty much ok even if you don't keep a paranoid eye on them.<p>I much prefer the following Haiku:<p><i>Sitting silently,</i><p><i>Doing nothing</i><p><i>And the grass grows by itself.</i>