The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Love is trembling happiness.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

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

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I am two with nature.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.