As human beings, we’re capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

True vision is the ability to see in another more than they are showing you.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.