It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

He who angers you conquers you.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

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.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I like to take it easy.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Hatred is settled anger.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

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

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Health consists with temperance alone.

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.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.