I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

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

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

[You] can dramatically change [your emotions] to be more altruistic, more loving, more compassionate, more attentive, and especially to have an inner sort of confidence and strength that you know that you have the resources to deal with whatever comes your way.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.