If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

It's the fact that your body and your personality are not God. God is you. But you can't say you are God just as the ocean is all the waves, but you can't say one wave is the ocean. And so you manifest God in a way that you don't understand. Man himself is the image of God, but he doesn't see that image in himself. And you need to meditate, and there will come your answer, not looking in the mirror.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.