Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.

Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Do according to your capability.

Don’t blame me. That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

To win the peace, fight with your love and understanding.

You can’t raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren’t happy and don’t know who you are. You can’t pin your life on someone else’s happiness.

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time...

Peace is a dreamland. Peace is in my imagination.Peace is in my heart. Peace is in my mind forming a singing band. Peace is my best friendalways holding my hand.Peace is the only battle I...

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

He loved happiness like I love tea.

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings...

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because you want to win their heart to create enduring peace.

I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don’t have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they...

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.

.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform,...

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Happiness: the feeling of being alive.

Do one thing every day to show that you love the universe.

The time I spent in the jungles held unalloyed happiness for me, and that happiness I would now gladly share. My happiness, I believe, resulted from the fact that all wildlife is happy in its...

I want to love like a rain drop loves the earth.

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then...

On the way, see the beauty, find the love, and express the kindness.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may...

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they...

quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Love is a magnetic force, you can’t see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.

I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart.

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain…my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay…she missed out on all that…like me, her son…a lifetime of sacrifice!…the woman...

Nothing is impossible, nothing is risky, when you take the action with love, something better will happen.

When you are present, you are not needy.

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.

Wherever you go, whenever you meet someone, enlighten every mind, brighten their life with love and kindness, it will make your world so delightful and so beautiful.

And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day ‘cult of optimism.’ For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when...

Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people...

Oh! let me love forever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never.

Thoughts not only manifest into reality,they define it.

Life is not a problem but an endless possibility.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.