“Sometimes the things that hurt the most teach us the best lessons.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

Anyone can buy a good house, but good neighbors are priceless.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down.”  

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”