Israel Adesanya Quotes

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

When I do martial arts, I feel like its inward facing. Like, I'm improving myself, I'm getting healthier. It's almost like mindfulness for something.

We can't worry about the future, just try to be the best person we can today.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.