Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

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.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

I like to just see what's going on at a certain location and see what there is to do. If it looks and sounds like I'm able to have fun there, then I'm all for it.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.