Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

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.

Faith is not to understand, but to feel!

You make a choice to win and you win...

Our souls are getting older and we're tired of doing things the same old way. We want to find some real solutions.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority