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

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.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.