It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

My life is my message.

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.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

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.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

We love things we love what they are.

My life is a struggle.

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

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I like to take it easy.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Life must be lived as play.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Life is wasted on the living.

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

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

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

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

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