Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

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.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child