Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.

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.

There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got energy. Out of my way.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.