The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Little things affect little minds.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I’m tender on the inside.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Never take anything for granted.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Forever is composed of nows.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.