Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

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.

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

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Be as you wish to seem.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

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.

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

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

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.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Only the shallow know themselves.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.