Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but the first-rate writer can only be experience. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

“The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.”

Habits are qualities of the soul.

"In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south"

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

"The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations."

"Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss."

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality"

"Instead of getting in shape, he can refine the quality of his pitches. Has he been good? Yes. Is he capable of being better? I think so."

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."