“You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.”

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.

One can learn to break the chains they’re bound by.

That feeling when you know you’re not meant to be together, but you’re not ready to let go.

If the days knew where you went it would not have become winter so soon, Nor the cold that freezes my hands would have tasted so much of longing for you.

I’m not here to boost your confidence with compliments. I’m here to figure out why you won’t open up. I rather see what the problem is, within the sea of broken promises.

A love like ours could have set the whole world to flames, our love could have put the brightest star to shame, maybe that’s why the universe thought it was better to keep us away.

I came back to you without ever telling you where I’ve been you came back to me the same way you left.

Growing flowers on your tongue/ won’t make those lies/ any sweet/ saying that you still/ love me/ won’t make this/ broken trust/ change how it feels.