When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

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

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Going home helps the content.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.