You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'.

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

When your soulmate cries your heart weeps.

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.