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

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself