Roseanne Barr Quotes

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

When I'm spiritually in the right place, there's no stopping me.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.