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

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.

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.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

All things acceptable to God the Father must come from God the Son, whether us or our works.

The Holy Spirit is the most influential mentor in your life. He is always willing to teach and guide you in all Truth.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

In the quiet of this day may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.