Find joy and peace in this very 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.

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe.John A. Wheeler

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.