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.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Each day provides its own gifts.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

The earth laughs in flowers.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

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.

I don’t try to control my days.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.