“If someone chooses what they love to do, there is no stress in their life. As they say, If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

The eyes are the window to the soul,

A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.

What great men do, common men follow.

Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.

As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.

When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.