“In true love, you attain freedom.”

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Hope is not utopian and peace is a good that can always be attained.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.