Your Worst Enemy-- is with your mind unguarded

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own mind, unguarded.
But once you mastered, no one can help you as much,
not even your father, mother, or any other relatives"

"Wheresoever fear arises, it arises in the fool, and not in the wise man."

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. It is appeased by love.
This is an eternal law."

"He who is observant of others' faults, and is always irritable,
increases his own defilements. He is far from the destruction of defilements"

"Mind is forerunner of all good and bad mental states.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind,
because of that, happiness follows one,
even as one's shadow that never leaves."

All the above Quotes are from Buddha's teaching and some buddhist text.

A Prayer

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
But be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
But for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
But hope for the patience to win my freedom"
- from buddhist monk

"seeing the way" --from buddha's teaching

Those who have passions are never able to perceive the
way;

"A mind troubled and vexed with passion is impure,
for it is like stirring up clear water with hands;
people may come there wishing to find a reflection of their faces,
which, however, they will never see.
O monks, do away with passions. When the dirt
of passion is removed, the way will manifest itself."

"People moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory.
But when they have acquired it,
they are already strikened in years. If you hanker
after wordly fame and practice not they way,
your labours are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted.
It is like unto burning an incense stick"

"How to be Happy" Quotes

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
----(By Mother Teresa 1910-1997) Founder, Missionaries of Charity

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit
----By Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) America novelist

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him"
----By Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) Russian Writer

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
----By Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer and lecturer

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
----By Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
--Chinese Proverb

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet.

He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.--By William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet