“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

“Living our life fully and deeply requires courage. If we cannot be happy right now, we need to ask ourselves why. We need to find out what it is. What’s weighing us down or pulling us away from the present moment?”

“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be.Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can’t just wait to see what kind of day you’ll have. You have to decide what kind of day you’ll have.”

““Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.””

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

“Daddy and Mommy. I never want to lose you.”

“There is only one poverty and that poverty is a heart that cannot love.”

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

““It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.””

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

““One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.””

““Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.””