Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

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.

She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God’s gift to her, and she wouldn’t trade him for the world.

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.