The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

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

Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.