Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

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.

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm no beauty queen, I'm just beautiful me

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.