Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

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.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Always continue to climb.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.