Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

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.

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.

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

In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

I'm just eating really, really clean healthy foods.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.