Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

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

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

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

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.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

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

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

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.

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