When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.

Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.

If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.

...if the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

Yesterday I bought myself a new, very sharp kitchen knife.And I managed to cut my finger within 5 minutes of getting home!Those plastic packages are bloody dangerous!!!

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.