May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

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.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.