Failure is often our best teacher not the success.

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any...

you were born as an origional don’t die as a copy

To achieve any success we have to endure some pain.

Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. An unhappy person felt as if there were barriers crushing her desires and the talents she had...

This is not the way I dreamed it. This is not what I had hope for, what I asked for. I want to skip this part. I want to push the fast-forward button until I...

In life, be daring, look for adventure, provide the service and love the nature.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone...

Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success.

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Never give up; never fail to try.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability.

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn’t tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon...

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick...

If we know that we all came from the same place and our destination is the same, then how could there be any conflicts? Why are we are loving each other and why we are...

I may not have all to be happy but I have to be happy with all that I have

To find the inner peace be utmost honest to yourself.

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, “never lay straight” in bed, “like a corpse”, but always curled up on one side. I believe...

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

One’s greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn’t last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to...

To see a thing as it is, we have to give up our preconceived perception about it.

Enjoy life, even in the most chaotic, hectic moments. Take time to breathe. Take time to consider what is important versus what is rubbish. Those are the times where slowing down is healthiest. Those are...

Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception.

Because it isn’t a loss; just a little piece of their haven had broken off. People can patch things; it still may hurt, but that’s life.

A problem is an opportunity to see your life through another window.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

The limitations you embrace become your life. Choose to be limitless!

I love you because I find myself in you.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had...

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice...

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she’ll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady...

When you love someone who hates you, that is the practice of divine love.

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics,...

There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love.

My final thought, before falling into the golden haze of time travel, was that these adventures on medieval Óshéanús had been the greatest days of any of my lives, past or future.

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can’t drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we...

Why do I want to run from happiness?

I love you not because you are perfect, but because I find you inside myself.

You cannot do what’s important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.