When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

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

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.