People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Nothing is permanent.

Someone else’s actions should not determine your response.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

If you make others happy, you’ll be happy. If you make others unhappy, you’ll be miserable.

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.

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be.

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don’t regard others as strangers.

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one’s existence, to have a good heart.

Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Hatred expressed as anger will lead to destructive action, compassion expressed as anger leads to positive change.

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Suffering should make us angry. This type of anger moves us towards a wrathful compassion to take action to end suffering.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

Anger and hatred are signs of weakness, while compassion is a sure sign of strength.

Real change in the world will only come from a change of heart.

Having a smart brain is not enough, we also need a warm heart.

What is love? Love is the absence of judgment.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of all kind.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health to make money, then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived.

Material development only gives us sensory pleasure, but to be lastingly happy we need to develop our minds. We need calm minds.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

It is our collective and individual responsibility…. To preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry, nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Through violence, you may ‘solve’ one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

If you feel ‘burn out’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.

One very important factor for sustaining hope is to have an optimistic attitude. Optimism doesn’t mean that you are blind to the reality of the situation. It means that you remain motivated to seek a solution to whatever problems arise. Optimism involves looking at a situation not only in relation to problems that arise, but also seeking out some benefit — looking at it in terms of its potential positive outcome.

There are always problems to face, but it makes a difference if our minds are calm.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

If you think you’re too small to make a difference… try sleeping with a mosquito in the room.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, if not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Joy is, in fact, quite contagious. As is love, compassion, and generosity.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others’ suffering.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to

A human being isn’t meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn’t just for work.

Gratitude is the most important attitude.