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

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

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.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

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 coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

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

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.