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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.'

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

My friends are my estate.

My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

My path is about Joy.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.