Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

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.

Originality of mind untainted, And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

I am being a minister of light and a destroyer of ignorance and I shall never keep quiet until this horrendous mountain is pulled down in my country, in the church of Christ and in my continent.

When a dream is fulfilled, it is always a glorious feeling.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.