True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Many people think excitement is happiness....

But when you are excited you are not peaceful.

True happiness is based on peace.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

All the world's a stage.

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

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Love is reckless, not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Having died of self-interest.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

Don't limit yourself.

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.