Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

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.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.