Brahma's atheist

I sometimes hear stuff by religious people such as ' my religion says such and such and this can make your life better' and I think wow that's great.
But then I think these things are pretty universal aren't they and you don't have to get them from religion? Anyone can come up with this stuff. That's why there are so many self help books about.
It's all ' live a decent life', 'treat people decently', 'don't do wrong','love yourself but not sexually' etc.
Are there any inspiring passages you can think of? Positive ones not 'go and kill the infidels and take their women' type things.
I always think hinduism is full of wise sayings to help you see things differently. Just ignore the 'women are the root of all evil' bit.I probably need to read my Bhagvadgita a bit to see if it does.
It's wierd. You probably live your life by these things any way if you're a decent person but someone saying them just seems to be inspiring. The people who get a platform to say them tend mainly to religios
Are there any non-religious positive philosophy type books out there that aren't those money making self help books?

ToMeK

"The Happiness Purpose" by Edward DeBono comes to my mind. Peter Singer has encouraged many people to donate to charity and become vegetarians through use of nothing but reason. Well, surely some emotive tactics might have been included but 'nothing' religious. Peter Singer is said to be the philospher who has accomplished the most in his life time. Many philosophers have accomplished heaps and more but it was post-mortem...

Books like "A short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and "Physics and Psychics" by Victor Stenger were also great IMO as they vastly increased my admiration for science... an admiration that has reached a critical point

Lastly Bertrand Russell makes some nice inspiring comments in his works

For Example:

Tomek