Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

I have wasted my hours.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Men must know their limitations.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.