A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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

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

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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.‘

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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