...proud of it?

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. 

-Edith Sitwell, poet (1887-1964)

greatest gift

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

~ Richard Moss

Pay our debt

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
-John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (1875-1940)

...is worth

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
-Spanish proverb

Zen on the tops

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. 

-Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928-2017)