Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

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.

Never forget to value yourself

Expect poison from the standing water.

My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.