Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.

People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.