The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

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 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.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

We always need a reason to live, and we pretend to have it.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.