We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

My life is filled with ineffable miracles.

I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.