Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

My message is that God is a good God.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.