There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Touring is hard on the body.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Each day provides its own gifts.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

We think too much and feel too little.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

Life is wasted on the living.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

A useless life is an early death.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Life is precious.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

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

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

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.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I never make conscious decisions.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.