“Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”

“Buddha agreed with modern biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings. Indeed, the more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer. Buddha’s recommendation was to stop not only the pursuit of external achievements, but also the pursuit of inner feelings.”

“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”

“But does not happiness come from the soul within?”

“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”

“The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.”

“Among the political attitudes that prevail in Germany today, only socialism has the potentiality of inner value and integrity.”