I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable. Health is by far the most important element in human happiness.
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
Yoga, the physical part, brings health in your body; meditation works on the mind, realizing your self. And they both can be practiced at the same time.
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
