For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.