Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer.

There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

You can root for someone who's imperfect.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

Unless you are in the middle of a storm, there is no validity in saying that you are not afraid of the storms.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.