“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”

Pain is inevitable,suffering is optional.

Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.

Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

All suffering is caused by ignorance.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

The way to change others’ minds is with affection, and not anger.

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

What you don’t owe would never hurt you.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.