The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

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.

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.