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.

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.

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.