If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

My life is my message.

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

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

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

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

An unused life is an early death.

Confine yourself to the present.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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.