To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

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.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Never take anything for granted.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Passions are the gales of life.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Time stays, we go.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.