Whatever you train, you change your brain.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

It's good to be alive.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.