Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

For greed all nature is too little.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.