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

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

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

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Life is anything but predictable.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

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.

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.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Life is precious.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.