To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The essence of Buddhism is not a belief system but a systematic investigation of our experience.

To live – is that not enough? To love – is that not everything?

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

Every moment of confusion is also a moment of wisdom, if we can learn to recognize it.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher.

The way we look at the world is the way the world looks.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

True peace comes not from controlling the world, but from letting go of control.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

In the moment of anger, abandon anger but not the person. In the moment of attachment, abandon attachment but not the person.

Trees, mountains, and vines all exist in nature according to their own truth. They are born and die following their nature. They remain this way because that's what they are. They don't practice meditation or do anything special.