Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Let Your Imagination Take Flight

What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?

A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.