Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Mind over mattress.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.