To gain something, be ready to give up something.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life.

Any thought or belief that doesn’t suggest the realities of success and happiness in your life, should never be granted the access to dwell in your mind.

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place...

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability.

Beautiful hours move so quickly.

…thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.

You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness.

…anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there.

It’s never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

To bring peace in this world, you have to be peaceful with yourself.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that.

She’d whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

You find peace not by creating but by giving.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long,...

…as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what’s right for you… pg 102

I have a dream that one day this world will be very peaceful and people will fight, not with their weapons, but with their love.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

We had everything we needed. None of it was big. Most of it was simple. But what I knew in that moment was that the size of your home, your car, your wallet, doesn’t have...

Don’t talk, just listen, and feel with all your heart.

I’ve pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don’t think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don’t follow some dream. Happiness doesn’t come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure....

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?

A problem is an opportunity to find a new way.

Allow yourself some happiness, so that I can be a part of it.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Take care of your mind. Never let negative thoughts infect your mind.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Love! In this world of sorrow, you’re my source of joy.

To speak of happiness is to create happiness.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

When you love yourself, feel the joy of your soul and see the dance of your spirit, you are really living your life.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Some kinds don’t need any proof.

When someone loves you, you are living in the most beautiful place in the earth, in the beauty of his or her mind. So enjoy it, even if it lasts for a moment.

The happiest people aren’t necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They’re the ones who are interested in the people around them.

In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with...

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how to the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the...

Take out the garbage…true happiness comes from within not from without!

I am the seeker of love, I am the giver of love, and I became the love.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.