Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

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.

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Only I can turn this country around.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.