If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

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 woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of

You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.