The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic.

If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.