We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right.
Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.
People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but Malala's voice was like a crescendo. It spread all around the world. She was the smallest but her voice was the biggest, because she was speaking for herself.
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (. . . ) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.