Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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

Let go of yesterday.

I’m a can-do girl.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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

Sometimes I lose my temper.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

I never make conscious decisions.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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.

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.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

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

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

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

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

I think that I’m perfect.

Little things affect little minds.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.