Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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.

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

You’re crying.” “I’m not.” “Right,” he said mildly. “I suppose you got rained on.

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.