Fireboat House (Pier A)

Tolstoy's 10 rules of life

Get up early (five o'clock).

Go to bed early (nine to ten o'clock).

Eat little and avoid sweets.

Try to do everything by yourself.

Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater.

Keep away from women.

Kill desire by work.

Be good, but try to let no one know it.

Always live less expensively than you might.

Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer.

Atisha di Pankara's list

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the world's ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

(11th century, CE)