It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

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

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.

Study men, not historians.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

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

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

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

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.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Sleep is the best meditation.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.