My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

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

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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?

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

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

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

My life is mine to remember.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

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

Simplify, simplify.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I never hold a grudge.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

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

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I like to take it easy.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.