“True humility means giving joy to others.”

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. The world is changed. Changed forever.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.

If you depend on God’s grace there is no such thing as impossible.

Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness.

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.

True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

The problem with fault-finding is that he who finds fault with others is in no way a happy person, Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

In your presence there is fullness of joy.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.