Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Life is our dictionary.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Fight with a happy heart.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The earth laughs in flowers.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.