Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

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.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

My mother always wants me to put me on a diet.

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.