A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

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