And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone...

The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.

By sharing, we express our gratitude for abundance and create emptiness for receiving.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what...

Oui, c’est votre idée, à vous tous, les ouvriers français, déterrer un trésor, pour le manger seul ensuite, dans un coin d’égoïsme et de fainéantise. Vous avez beau crier contre les riches, le courage vous...

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant;...

Why choose to live unhappily when living happily is already an option available to you?

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Real happiness lies within you.

It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he’d found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He’d been...

trailer trash,” those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers’ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers’ lovers. The mandate was...

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can...

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Our biggest obstacle to success is not the lack of opportunity but addiction to conformity.

In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men....

We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I’d never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it...

You know you’re successful when your wants and needs are in harmony with your current situation.

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be… but then I have...

Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone’s spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your...

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is...

When you have a purpose in life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many...

I keep remembering one of my Guru’s teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather...

As you think, so you are.

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Religion is most often a curse; it teaches us to hate others.

Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how...

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Easily he had turned studying my least favorite subject in history into my now most memorable one. Then there was his want to make our relationship more real than superficial, something very new to me....

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with...

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.

Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but...

We always will have some differences but still we could be happy and peaceful if we learn to love each other.

One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.

If we all want the peace and flooded the world with love, peace will wait for us at the shore.

My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.

I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.

As we all know, life is always moving on.

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.