“Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.”

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Happiness, where forgiveness unfolds and peace begins.

Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.