If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

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 hid myself in food.

The first wealth is health.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

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

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

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

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

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.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

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.‘

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

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.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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 pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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.

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

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.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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

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