There are many more ordinary hours in life than extraordinary ones.
We wait in line at the supermarket.
We spend hours commuting to work.
We water our plants and feed our pets.
Happiness means finding a moment of joy in those ordinary hours.

Just sheer life cannot be said to have a purpose, because look at all the different purposes it has all over the place. But each incarnation, you might say, has a potentiality, and the mission of life is to live that potentiality. How do you do it? My answer is Follow your bliss. There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if yo ...

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy - not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.

To marry, to establish a family, to take on all the children that might come along, to look after them and perhaps even guide them is, I am convinced, the highest thing anyone can ever achieve. That so many appear to achieve it easily is not evidence to the contrary, for in the first place not many really achieve it, and secondly these few often don't 'do' it - it just happens to them. This may not be the 'highest thing' I mentioned, but it is still something great and most ...