A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.

Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.

We start living in heaven as soon as we leave life … the hell alone.

The wise willingly accept the unwillingness of the foolish to accept what is as part of what is.

Mental pain is usually caused, not by our being pushed by life to where we do not want—or away from where we want—to be, but by the friction caused by our resistance to the push.

We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.

Surrendering to reality requires the highest degree of humility.

Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.

Disappointment is an unwanted—but invited—guest.