What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Everlasting God!

punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?

After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

It'd be better if he were easier to hate.