Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.