Echoes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.