One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

I eat next to nothing.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

The first wealth is health.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

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

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

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.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Never take anything for granted.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it’s going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it’s 6. Done!

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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.

Let go of yesterday.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.