“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

“You may teach the blind to read but not to see”

“We don’t force ourselves to be happy; to be happy we change ourselves”

“Enlightenment does not mean making the most of bad situations. It means knowing that every situation is neither good nor bad.”

“It’s all about perspective… From the top of the canyon, the river looks like a snake and from the bottom of the canyon, it looks like a cascading body of jewel-blue water.”

“It is innate temperament, acting on a view of the facts necessarily incomplete, that has inspired so many different teachers.”

“Everyone wishes to be happy but in this quick fix, fast paced world it’s becoming increasingly difficult to be truly content. While we assume that happiness depends on external factors, it actually has a lot to do with our attitude and perspective.”

“Sometimes, changing just one thought, view, belief or behaviour can change your entire life.”

“It’s humbling to think how different you would be if you were born in a different time.”

“When you pay rent, you are paying for permission to be on a piece of land that predates the landlord by billions of years.”

“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself – in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love – and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it.”

“Be like the flower, content with its nature.”

“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”

“When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.”