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

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

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

When we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.

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

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.