Let us love each other, then appreciate each other, then express our gratitude to each other; we will create heaven on earth.

The light that colors the embraces the gods is the light that resides in your heart.

No one is responsible for your own happiness. Neither could anyone or thing succeed in making you happy. This is because happiness can only be activated or deactivated through your repeated thoughts and beliefs.

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

In the West, for example, people believe they must ‘pursue happiness’ as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born...

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not. Proper utilization of time is so important. While we...

I am not pretty, I am not ugly,I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better – cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

To be a great success get busy with what you like but don’t forget to love.

Happiness and success are not something that we can attain or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about during the very process of reaching them.

Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit.

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me....

Travel in our Dreams Brings hope and Happiness

I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

Happiness is the change that comes over mewhen I describe the worldIt comes over the worldHappiness is the change that comes over mewhen I’m afraidIt comes over the worldFor instance I can be afraid of...

You are the child of this universe; you have the right to success and peace.

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment…

Alors, dans l’obscurité j’ai pleuré de bonheur.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you...

Dream big; try hard; fail big; keep hope alive.

True, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that’s why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you’re young enough, you don’t know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is...

Unquenchable desire for interconnectedness. Sate me.

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul,...

Unfortunately, we don’t have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as “successful” are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly successful people–those...

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking...

When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of...

Love and trust is the way; peace is the destination.

You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all...

You find peace not by looking but by giving.

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Peace is a blue skyWith gentle and kind breezeFilled with love and joyWhich we can dwell and share.

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others...

You must want to change. It sounds simple, but it’s obviously not. If things were easy, then something would be wrong. You must make a firm decision that this is what you want. If you...

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one’s joy with others who do...

Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d’autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je marcherai, c’est tout. Et s’il faut un jour me battre, n’importe quel jour en vaut un...