Smile, breathe, go slowly.

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.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

You are better than you think.

that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.