What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough. 
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
Live fully each day to the full ...
Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you. 
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become ... 
You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through. 
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. 
More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important. 
A possession can't make you happy. 
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. 
True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have. 
If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy. 
The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. 