Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

You can’t go backward in life.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

I never make conscious decisions.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

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

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

My life has been very full.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

There is so much that people take for granted.

He who angers you conquers you.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

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.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I’m not a bad person.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.