Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

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.

Our thoughts create our world.

Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

What good shall I do this day?

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.