Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.

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.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt

We Christians sometimes think we need a plan for evangelism. I don't think Jesus had an evangelism plan. I think He just interacted with the people He came into contact with.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.