Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Fight with a happy heart.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.