With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

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.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?