I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

To be awake is to be alive.

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.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

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

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

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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 it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

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

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

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.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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

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

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

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?

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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.

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.