Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.

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.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely

no matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event, nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.