First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's because you may never have done so in your entire life if you really think about it if you are really honest with yourself.

Well there are two kinds of happiness grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks but even then you have to believe in yourself.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Happiness is perfume you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky the great ocean and the highest peak empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing competing with and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

A good basic selling idea involvement and relevancy of course are as important as ever but in the advertising din of today unless you make yourself noticed and believed you ain't got nothin'.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

If you stand up and be counted from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.