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

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.

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

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

in a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower.thornless. unwithering. abundant in seeds

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.