It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Some people say the rain with no purpose and others say with memories and wishes

You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.