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

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

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

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

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

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.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Mind over mattress.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Before all else, be armed.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

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.

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.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.