The Golden Key to Happiness Quotes

“To those of you who are depressed, I would like to say: How did you fall into depression? Why are you still in that condition? You yourself know the answer. Right. Because you can think of nothing but yourself, and you direct all the energy you have toward yourself.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Prayer is for cleansing the soul and for removing the illness from the inner state of being.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“The most serious cause of illness that we may face as we proceed to the twenty-first century is increasing human isolation.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“The secret key to health: Don’t think about illness in your mind; don’t talk about illness with your mouth; don’t listen to illness through your ears; and don’t see illness with your eyes.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“It’s not too late. Promptly stop needless worrying. Instead of using all your energy for yourself, you need to turn your eyes more toward the love of mankind. Then you will no longer trouble yourself about foolish matters.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If you are hurt, irritated, and driven by worry and anxiety over each trite event, your health methods will be useless. You need first to nourish your mind and spirit so that, no matter what happens around you, you will be able to deal with it properly without hurting or wounding yourself. So long as your inner being is constant and shining with splendor, your body will be perfectly healthy—even if you do nothing about it. It’s important to know that your physical condition originates from your inner being.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Praise your body right now. Thank your body. If you have a liver problem, apologize to your liver for having overtaxed it selfishly without either care or thanks. Pledge to change your attitude and use your liver with sincere and deep gratitude. This applies to every bodily function, every internal or external organ, every artery or vein, every muscle or bone. If you continuously thank any part of your body, it will definitely respond.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“You are truly mature if you can listen lightly, as if to an echo, to criticism or to vile blasphemy, no matter how unbearable, without reacting. As long as you are not attached to fame, glory, reputation, or social status, there is no need to suffer. A person without attachments has neither lifelong enemies to overthrow nor any need to flatter people in power.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“People who emanate powerful hostility toward you, face you with evil intentions, and challenge you to combat fully believe you to be their enemy. However, when you probe deeply, you find that they are struggling with their own egos. On the surface, their combative thoughts seem directed toward you, but in fact they are directed toward themselves. Therefore, no matter what thought is directed at you, you need not fear. All thoughts return to the person who projects them. They never stay to harm you—as long as you don’t catch them.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Atmosphere is created by a person’s daily thoughts. The person who always continues to have cheerful and constructive thoughts creates a warm, comfortable atmosphere that other people enjoy being near. You must become a person who radiates this kind of atmosphere.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“You are not lonely because you are alone. Many are lonely amid their families and friends, or even with their beloved. Loneliness is a state in which one’s heart is not fulfilled. Even when they live alone, those who somehow contribute to others harbor no loneliness in their hearts. If you don’t want to be lonesome, be of service to others—whatever that service might be.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Behave pridefully before no one, show anger to no one, scold no one, restrict no one, resent no one, badmouth no one, hate no one, sadden no one, criticize no one, hurt no one, discriminate against no one, betray no one, be jealous of no one, forgive everyone—this is how we should always hope to be.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Don’t harm yourself or others by unnecessarily exaggerating errors you or others made. Instead, exaggerate and praise the smallest good deed, whether it’s yours or another’s. Then people will overlook your errors and recognize your smallest good deed.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Never defend yourself. Make no excuse. Defensiveness and excuses are unbecoming to you. Smoothly recognize your wrong, apologize, and give thanks to God. Then you will be evaluated as a great person. The more you run away, the smaller you become. How dare you transfer your responsibility to others! A great person is one who can take all the responsibility alone.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If one gives little, one receives little. If one gives much, one receives much.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“How others behave toward you should not affect your behavior toward them. You must not answer arrogance with arrogance. You must not answer sarcasm with sarcasm. You must not answer contempt with contempt. No matter how others behave toward you, always respond with warm love and a caring heart.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If you forever continue to be obsessed by your own failures as well as your husband’s, wife’s, or children’s past behavior, weaknesses, and so forth, you will recall and repeat similar failures. Every one of those failures, events, and shortcomings belongs to a past that has already disappeared. Each tomorrow is absolutely new, and your luminous future is about to begin. However, if you constrict yourself with your own thoughts and feelings, refuse to forgive, criticize your husband’s, wife’s, or children’s past, tremble with fear that the same may be repeated, and carry those past memories with you forever—then you will never attain true peace. No matter how large failures and shortcomings are, they are of the past and are gone and vanished. Take courage and change your thinking, trusting in your family’s wonderful future, and firmly sever yourself from past events with your own will.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“You never encounter the same person twice, for everyone perpetually changes second by second. This even applies to parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister. You are wrong in grabbing the past image of a person and thinking that what you see now is the same person you saw in the past. Of course, it is also a fact that you too are changing second by second. You should live with this fact strongly imprinted on your mind: All human beings are constantly renewing themselves.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If everyone in this world began in the same way to speak only words of love, what would the world be like? Speaking words of love means that all the energy works actively toward the positive. It means talking of happiness, prosperity, and health, and never talking about misfortune, illness, poverty, and so forth, no matter what. Word is alive. Word is energy. Word has the power to create. Everything is determined by word.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Let us become the kind of people who can take pleasure in elevating others, rather than trying to place ourselves in a superior position by lowering others.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“When you utter words which reinforce the truth—that every human being is divine and luminous—and when you also utter words that inspire others’ souls, then you have made others truly alive.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Say such words as these to those you love: ‘I need you from my heart.’ ‘I depend on you.’ ‘You are essential to me.’ ‘You are wonderful.’ ‘You are bright and cheerful.’ ‘You are gentle and kind.’ ‘You are beautiful.’ ‘You are smart.’ ‘You are talented.’ ‘You are generous and forgiving.’ ‘You are caring.’ … Use such positive words abundantly to your children, your husband, or your wife. Then they will promptly become worthy of these words.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Don’t criticize your children, your husband, or your wife. You must not take in any prejudices, nor must you give any name to these prejudices: an idiot, a fool, a good-for-nothing, a lazy person, a liar, a beast! The person you call a name will eventually become that name. Even if you may think these thoughts a little, never throw such words directly at people. You should be thoroughly aware of the awesome energy a word carries.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“The wonderful words that you give to others have two or three times more power than the energy that you receive from others. This is the law of the universe; this is truth. Therefore, give all that is within you.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“It is more important to give positive energy to others than to receive it.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If you always utter vulgar words or words that pierce others’ hearts, hurt them, or cause them to suffer, nobody will. Even your parents and friends who love you would hesitate to do so. Not even one of the words you have uttered will sell; your energy will run low and become negative; you will become poor; and you won’t be able to continue to live. This is how you torture yourself with your own words.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“If you have unconditionally taken in all the words that flood this world, you have acquired an enormous burden. You have lost your freedom; you are in pain;”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Let’s aim at the following at all times as we live our lives: Let us live this day to the fullest and speak only words of goodness, love, and care, refraining from any kind of negative words. If someone mouths negative words, let’s have the good sense to change the topic instantly.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“Not only that, thoughts, actions, and words have the power to draw to themselves whatever elements are necessary to become concrete reality.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness

“The energy of our every thought, action, or word, once it has been projected, lasts eternally without disappearing.”
― Masami Saionji, The Golden Key to Happiness