Feelings in Words

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

"I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than you and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"One should train in deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind—that yield long-lasting happiness."

"May all beings have happy minds."

"It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse."

"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow."

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"A disciplined mind brings happiness."

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering."

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

"Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again."