You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

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.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, "You have no idea what you do to me.

My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.