Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.

In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.