Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.
Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.
On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one’s responsibilities, serves one’s fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.
If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.
Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.