Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

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.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

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

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

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?

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.