The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

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.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

I'm definitely the kind of person to wear underwear all the time.

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.