“There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.”

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Only the present moment contains life.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

I’ve always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

I have never met a strong woman who has never been broken. She had to learn how to pick herself her and carry on. She had to learn how to depend on herself for happiness.

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He’s inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination – but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.