This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-- once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult.

Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

-- M. Scott Peck

Reality is something you rise above.

-- Liza Minelli

All this task and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside the veil; inside the veil is silence and calm and peace.

-- Abu Yazid Al-Bismati

Do something good for someone you like least, today.

-- St. Anthony of Padua

Life naturally evolves in the direction of happiness. We must constantly ask ourselves if what we are doing is going to make us,and those around us, happy.Because happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

When we seek money, or a good relationship, or a great job, what we are really seeking is happiness. The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

-- Deepak Chopra, M. D.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

-- Thomas Alva Edison

. . . He is dear to Me who runs not after the pleasant Or away from the painful, grieves not Over the past, lusts not today, But lets things come and go as they happen.

Who serves both friend and foe with equal love, Not buoyed up by praise or cast down by blame, Alike in heat and cold, pleasure and pain, Free from selfish attachments and self-will, Ever full, in harmony everywhere,Firm in faith--such a one is dear to Me.

But dearest to Me are those who seek Me In faith and love as life's eternal goal. They go beyond death to immortality.

-- Bhagavad Gita

I tell you one thing--If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

-- Sri Sarada Devi

I think that love is the only spiritual power that can overcome the self-centeredness that is inherent in being alive. Love is the thing that makes life possible or, indeed, tolerable.

-- Arnold Toynbee

Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not primarily put on the earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

-- Peter DeVries

Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat." Spiritual Simplicity The Real Secret http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com/