Watch Your Thoughts

Remember the opening line from the Dhamapada: "All that we are is the result of our thoughts." Along that line, there is a passage called "Watch Your Thoughts," which is similar.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

To complete that line from the Dhamapada, "All that we are is the result of our thoughts. If a person speaks and acts from a pure thought, happiness will follow him like a shadow that never leaves him."

So the lesson is watch your thougths.