Book: The art of being happy

Until then, there is no inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, no material possessions and other external conditions will not bring you the feeling of joy and happiness that you are looking for.

Satisfaction - is the true antidote to greed. If you are accustomed to be content with what you have, then you will not worry because of the desire to do anything to possess.

Compassion and loving kindness themselves will make us open, a result, it becomes much easier to communicate with people. Because you find that other people are no different from you and it is significantly closer. You have the opportunity to experience real friendship.

Once in stalled, you need an hour, a day or even a few days to think about how best to achieve happiness, and then new priorities.

Always miserable is he who feels a prisoner of his own body and mind.

The ability to look at things from a different angle is one of the most effective ways to successfully solve life's problems.

The struggle for life makes us who we are, and the enemies feel our strength, developing in us the capacity for resistance, which is so necessary for development.

Forgive and forget are two different things. There is nothing wrong to remember about your troubles, but if you are smart, you will never forget.

In our time, religion lost some prestige and influence, and a worthy replacement she developed secular ethics, for example - have not appeared.

In our culture, the ingrained notion that deep intimacy is only possible in the context of a passionate romantic relationship with a Special Person, which we distinguish from the mass of other people. This view often limits us and cuts from other sources of intimacy, causing us to suffer when we can't find that Special someone.

Making a decision, ask yourself: "what would that make me happy?" Asking this question every time before making a decision, we move our focus from what we deny ourselves, what we strive for.

Sometimes the words that we dismiss as simple and naive are the best answer.

Happiness does not come in a ready package. It is the result of your own actions.