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.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

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.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

The blood of Christians is seed.

I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.