« When you start to think of life as a due and not as a gift, when you say, "This is my place in the sun," you prepare for a lot of suffering. Because one thing is certain: at the end of life, we will lose everything. Then you might as well give it everything. We might as well consider the health of children, our own health, our friends, as huge gifts and not as a due. In short, gratitude is revisiting everything you receive with new freedom and enjoying it even more, without holding on, without clinging. »

« So let us ask ourselves what is at the center of our lives. Is it our problems, our complexes, our social games? Is it the other one? What is the center of my life? What gives the direction of my existence? Certainly, laughter prevents us from settling in. Let's start by laughing at ourselves, because there's plenty to do. Boredom has little or no place. As soon as you start laughing at yourself, everything becomes exercise. I can even laugh at my stubbornness. Far from mockery, laughter can become an instrument of life that uproots all narcissistic fixation and helps us move forward. »

« It is not when I have settled all my accounts with life that I will be happy. »