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

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.

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The cure might be worse than the problem

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!