Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

I like pushing boundaries.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I’m tender on the inside.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Mind over mattress.

The self is hateful.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I don’t have all the answers.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Peace begins with a smile.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!