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.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

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.

One of the central tenets of the Western worldview is that one should always be engaged in some kind of outward task. Thus, the Westerner structures his time—including, sometimes, even his leisure time—as a series...

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.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

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...

Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

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.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

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...

It’s okay to be happy.

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...

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb

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.

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do...

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,...

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection,...

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.

You must remember this feeling, Jon.The feeling of being happy. It doesn’t happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don’tover analyse...

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...

Look back on the good, look forward to the future.

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

My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about.

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...

Small Moth…She’s slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt...

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...

Larry: She doesn’t want to be happy.Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.Larry: Depressives don’t. They want to be unhappy to confirm they’re depressed. If they were happy they couldn’t be depressed anymore. They’d have to...

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.

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in...

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.

Stop caring and you will be happy forever.

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...