Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.

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.

True faith and suffering frequently go hand-in-hand . . .Living for Christ, walking in His way, will not be an easy path.

I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race.

I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.