I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Energy begets energy.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

To live is to think.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Sleep is the best meditation.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.