There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

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.

Money should not dictate how I live my life..I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.

I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.

Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.