Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.