We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

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.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

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.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.