Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.

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.

But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.

When you have a purpose in life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

Fashion goes round in circles.

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.