Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

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.

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.