The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

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

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.

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

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

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

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Touring is hard on the body.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

We were poor, but we smiled.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.