“No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house”

Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

"Yoga is a life-saver."

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”

"I don’t want to be thought of as the “girl who was shot by the Taliban” but the “girl who fought for education.” This is the cause to which I want to devote my life."

"We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different."

"Tell me how can one live without daughters."

"I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children."

"I don't want to be thought of as the "girl who was shot by the Taliban" but the "girl who fought for education." This is the cause to which I want to devote my life."

"Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide."

"Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice."

"I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search of the other side of it."

"I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold"

"Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life."

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.

Where there is life, there is love.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.