“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”

“To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.”

“The compassionate heart of his majesty finds no pleasure in cruelties or in causing sorrow to others; he is ever sparing of the lives of his subjects, wishing to bestow happiness upon all.”

“The compassionate heart of his majesty finds no pleasure in cruelties or in causing sorrow to others; he is ever sparing of the lives of his subjects, wishing to bestow happiness upon all.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement… To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

“The future that we will never experience is constantly haunting us in the present moment. Thus, taking away our true happiness.”

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

“There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”