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.

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.

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.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

With 100% confident, courage and commitment, anything is possible.

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

I must have been through about a million girls, I'd love 'em and leave 'em alone. I didn't care how much they'd cry.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.