There is no nourishment like happiness - it's an elixir.
There is no sickness like sorrow - it's a poison.
The experience of true happiness cures the sickness of sorrow.
A cheerful face goes a long way towards making everything better!
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Fill every thought with determination, every step with courage and every word with love.
Ego is not just having a big head. Ego is present every time you feel any kind of fear, or hear yourself saying "That's mine!". The truth tells us that nothing is 'mine' or 'yours', we are all trustees, and fear is only present where there is the voice of attachment. So where there is ego, there is attachment, and where there is attachment there is fear, and where there is fear there cannot be love and where there is no love there is misery. This is why there is so much unhappiness in the world. Detach from everything, and you will banish ego, fear will be no more, only then can true love return, and our oldest friend happiness will feel it is then safe to make a reappearance in your life.
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
A great man is always willing to be little.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
