A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

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.

People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work.

Id you're finished picking out my flaws, maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--""You.""What was that?""I Want You.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.