“The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.

Take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Proper utilization of time is so important.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.