No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

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.

I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.

Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.