Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

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.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

Goat screaming videos are hilarious.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Worry worships the words of the enemy