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Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.


Sharon Salzberg

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SHARON DRAPER I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
SHARON BEGLEY Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christ...
SHARON GLESS But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
SHARON GLESS The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a...
SHARON JONES The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outwa...
SHARON BOLTON As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for g...
SHARON STONE The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON