Buddha

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

God has no religion.