I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

I'm a very quotatious person.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.