Life is only available in the present moment.

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.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.