Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

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.

Life is a race against time

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

This is the end of our sentence

History is made by those who say no.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.