Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

“It is not that we have so little time, but that we waste so much of it.”

feeling that we’ve done nothing at the end of the day, the end of the year, the end of life, reveals how unaware we remain of the potential for development we carry within us.

Boredom is the fate of those who rely entirely on distraction, for whom life is one big entertainment

Knowing how to use our time to the full does not mean we always have to be in a hurry or obsessed by the clock.

Whether we are relaxing or concentrating, resting or intensely active, in all circumstances we must be able to recognize the true value of time.

a killer asks you where the person he’s chasing is hiding, that is obviously not the moment to tell the truth.

Conversely, if someone approaches you with a big smile and showers you with compliments only to rip you off, his conduct is nonviolent in appearance, but his intentions are actually malevolent.

the major shortcoming of the utilitarian system, in the long run, is the risk of confusing pleasure with genuine happiness, or more accurately, of reducing the latter to the former.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

to do what’s worth doing and to live life in such a way that we have no regrets when it comes time for us to die.

the power of example speaks more forcefully than any other communication.