Meditation helps me to calm down.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

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.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

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.

Forever is composed of nows.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

My life is mine to remember.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.