When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

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.

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

None of us are getting out of here alive".

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.