We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Education means Independence and Independence means liberty!

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.