Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
Happiness is when what you think, do and say are in harmony.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Sweetness is the taste of all virtues. Patience is the fortress of all virtues. Cheerfulness is the evidence of all virtues.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivety. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
