Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What keeps me going is goals.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.