Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

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.

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Don't let misery bring you down.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

When an illiterate gets angry, you'll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.