“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

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

ON CHILDREN

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“You only live one but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.”

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

The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.

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

“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.”

“Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.”

“There are certain people who make the world a better place just by being in it. You are one of those people. I love you my friend.”