It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

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

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

You can’t do something forever.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

My life is my argument.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

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

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.