“Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Only the present moment contains life.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I always knew I had something special.

Every girl is beautiful if they have the ability to believe in themselves.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.