“This life is a gift and we live it with regret.”

With change comes the chance to fall in love with yourself again.

You are summer to my winter heart.

But water doesn’t mix with fire and I am both.

It’s heavy isn’t it but you are stronger for it.

Let go of the weight of the world, It’s not yours to hold.

I fall in love with eyes because they cannot hide, even the most cunning of lies.

I breathe you in and I can’t help but exhale love.

Sometimes the world buries me but flowers can grow only from beneath.

Kiss me Its been so long since I have seen the stars.

Find a tender heart and be prepared for a lifetime of love.

I owe fate a thank you for giving me you.

There is so much strength in being fragile.

She feels invisible but she doesn’t know her light is binding.

Light can always be found in love.

I have never held onto anything as tight as I have you.

She often felt alone but her solitude was the reason she had grown.

My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”

We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.

You can’t expect love to be perfect when people aren’t.

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

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