You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

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.

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.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.