It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

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.

Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

Is there any success without an effort?

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.

I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.