If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Interpretation
Happiness should be linked to personal goals rather than external factors.
This quote emphasizes the importance of setting personal goals as the foundation for a fulfilling and happy life. By anchoring your happiness to your aspirations and achievements rather than relying on others or material possessions, you cultivate a sense of purpose and resilience against external disappointments.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.
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