In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God.

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.

...Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.

It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.