Don't Worry Be Happy

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.