A Buddhist temple nestling among coconut trees as seen from Lady Hill Hotel, Galle. Photograph©Chulie de Silva

Watch your thoughts: they become words

Watch your words: they become actions

Watch your actions: they become habits

Watch your habits: they become your character

Watch your character: for it becomes your destiny.

I first saw these lines when I worked in Brunei and had saved a cutting of it that I came across recently among my thingummies.  They were supposed to be from a packet of herbal tea.