Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

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.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

Immortality entails not invincibility.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.