Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Recommended reading: The Psychology of Winning.

If you start to think the problem is ‘out there’, stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Recommended reading: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change.

Everything is a gift of the universe – even joy, anger, jealousy, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Recommended reading: Three Prescriptions for Happiness.

If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

Recommended reading: The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching & Hau Hu Ching.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

Recommended reading: Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Recommended reading: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Recommended reading: Charles F. Kettering: A Biography.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Recommended reading: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Recommended reading: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Recommended reading: Raja Yoga.