Eddie Cantor Quotes

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

I realise that stress is only fear. I now release all fears

Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.

Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.