Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.

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 problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help.

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Only the dead stay seventeen forever.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.