True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

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.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.