Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.

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.

Conquer yourself

The Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving. Be aware!!

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.