It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

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.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

Germany has been born anew.

To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.