No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances. - Paramahansa Yogananda


The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious, light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. - Yuan-Sou


Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao-tzu


To think, "I will not think" - This, too, is something in one's thoughts. Simply do not think about not thinking at all. - Takuan


Work. Keep digging your well. Don't think about getting off from work. Water is there somewhere. - Djalal ad-Din Rumi


The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it. - Lao-tzu


I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning and to help to relieve the grief of one person in the afternoon. - Thich Nhat Hanh


It is only change that is at work here. - I Ching


Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. - Lao-tzu


If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.  - Chinese proverb


Have love for everyone, no one is other than you. - Ramakrishna


To see the universal and all-pervading spirit of truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creatures as oneself. - Mahatma Gandhi


He or she who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao-tzu


Do not say anything harsh; what you have said will be said back to you. - Buddha


This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this Self. - The Upanishads


It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings. - Mahatma Gandhi


Find friends who love the truth. - The Dhammapada


Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. - Djalal ad-Din Rumi


You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. - Rabindranath Tagore


It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. - Dalai Lama


To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Tao Te Ching


If you want to do a certain thing, You first have to be a certain person. Once you have become the certain person, You will not care anymore about doing that certain thing. - Dogen


If three of us travel together, I shall find two teachers. - Confucius