“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.”

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Our relationships are stronger when they contain a spiritual component. There are three different ways to become good friends with someone.

Think: Is this in my control? If yes, you can do something about it. If no, then you cannot do anything about it. Therefore, in both circumstances, why worry?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.

Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

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.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

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

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.