In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

Make it your mission to encourage everyone who crosses your path.

Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

I grieve for every death.

Love without trust is a river without water.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.