When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.