Happiness is a state of mind that only can be gifted by you. People who look toward others to make them happy are miserable. Until you realize that you are responsible for your own happiness, nothing will ever change for the better in your life. Looking outside yourself for happiness is a never ending battle. It is a path to a dead end: a wasteland of emptiness. Make happiness your choice, not dependent on outside of you. Inside you is the only lasting place happiness can ever live. When you make the transition that happiness emanates from within you, your outside circumstances reflect your inner reality.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.