You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

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.

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

We can never go back.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

We are 100% responsible for all our experiences. Every thought we think is creating our future.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

(I measure time by how a body sways.)