No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

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.

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

I have good days and bad days.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

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 I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.