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

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Your presence is a miracle.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.