The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

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.

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

Never settle for less, optimize your potential wherever you find yourself.

Live every single day doing something relevant

Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.