Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

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.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

To be a great success, be happy today.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174

AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don't get no respect.

Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.