It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
The doorway to success swings outward not inward.
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
A non-doer is very often a critic - that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
The noblest revenge is to forgive.
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter.
Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.
We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Summer bodies are made in the winter.
The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.