“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past as that will only cause unnecessary resentment.

“To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.”

“Don’t worry about those who talk behind your back, they are behind you for a reason.”

You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies.

“It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved.”

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

“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.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”