When you’re anxious or worried, be patient. The key of patience opens the door of happiness.
Happiness
Very little is needed to make a Happy Life
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Doing Good to Others
"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness."
True Happiness
"True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things."
The ultimate source of a Happy Life
"The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartednesÂs. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering...
Balance
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it...
Capable of being Alone
"Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core into the other person -- without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without creating 'the other', reducing the other into a...
Happiness Happens
"Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy."
People take Different Roads
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
Practice Compassion
"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives."