I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.