a) When you enter nature's domain, really enter it by scuba diving, or walking in a rainforest, or trekking high up in the Himalayas, or, perhaps walking in a desert....humility is injected into you, without your ego being bruised, because you know you are not in competition with nature. This is one emotion that all humans must experience. ( Bittu Sahgal)
b) When you were young and getting started in England, were you able to relax ?
Anthony Hopkins : No, not really. When you are younger, you tend to be tense and it's all very important. As the years go by you think, oh well, let's just relax and enjoy it, it's all a game. (source : Readers Digest)

If you grow up with something that you have always enjoyed, loved and connected with a level where you feel totally contented, then life itself becomes joyous. When something has such an affect on you that it transports you to a different level of consciousness, you get an incredible amount of happiness and you feel like sharing the same with others. And that's how it's been with me; I feel a sublime, divine connect with my instrument. ( Ustad Zakir Hussain)

A child once accompanied his parents on an outing to the mountains. With them, he drank cool water from a mountain stream. Loving its fresh taste, he filled a bottle from the stream and took it home with him. There, he would sip only a little water each day, wanting to make it last as long as possible.

What was his disappointment a few weeks later, then, to find that the water left in the bottle had become stagnant. Money, similarly, grows stagnant when we "bottle it up"- that is to say, hoard it. To attract a steady money-flow in our lives, we must learn to view money not as a thing merely, but as an expression of energy- ultimately, as an expression of our energy. 

(Kriyananda)

Assess the people around you; understand them for what they are. Then you will not have unreasonable expectations of them. Do you hate a lion for its ferocity? Do you dislike a deer for its timidity? No. You understand that they all function according to their nature. As long as you feel negativity about anyone you will suffer, not the other person.
(Excerpt from Speaking Tree-Times of India)

2012 “Readers Favorite Awards”

The Illuminator - Access to Universal Intelligence by  Rajith Rajappan  won the Honourable  Mention award for Non-Fiction/Self-Help; its Universal Intelligence theory focuses on emotions, knowledge, and self-improvement goals to help you succeed in every aspect of your life. 

http://readersfavorite.com/2012-award-contest-winners.htm#NonFiction-SelfHelp-a

The inner wealth is our mind, our consciousness. I believe that this mind is like a wish-fulfilling jewel. If you know how to utilise this mind, it can produce the most beneficial effects. The best way to utilise and develop this mind is to absorb knowledge, and the most important kind of knowledge is the one that makes us a kind person, a decent person, a person worthy of respect. The qualities which make an individual kind, decent and respectable are qualities such as patience, generosity and kindness. The good news is that we do not have to adopt or create these qualities , since they are already potentially there in all of us. In this way, the wealth lies latent within each and every one of us.
So all we need to do is give ourselves, everyday, a bit of a reason to generate these qualities, bit by bit. We actually have to be grateful for obstacles because without them we never learn. It is thank to difficulties and challenge that we can come up with solutions, some of which will work and some not. But even if they don't work, it doesn't mean we should give up. It only means we should try again.
(Karmapa Trinely Thaye Dorje)

Be miserable Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, its always your choice.

(mind-chow from mumbai mirror)