“Sick of tea? That’s like being sick of breathing!”

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

Power in firebending comes from the breath, not the muscle!

It is time for you to look inward, and start asking yourself the big questions. Who are you? And what do you want?

Follow Your Passion And Life Will Reward You.

Destiny is a funny thing. You never know how things are going to work out. But if you keep an open mind and an open heart, I promise you will find your own destiny someday.

Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.

You are not the man you used to be. You are stronger and wiser and freer than you ever used to be. And now you have come at the crossroads of destiny. It’s time for you to choose. It’s time for you to choose good.

Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving, you will come to a better place.

It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.

Good Times Become Good Memories, But Bad Times Make Good Lessons.

There are reasons each of us is born. We have to find those reasons.

When you’re in your darkest place, you give yourself hope and that’s inner strength.

I always tried to tell you that Pai Sho is more than just a game.

You will be the beautiful prince you were always meant to be.

I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid you’d lost your way.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves

Time is our present breath.

We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.