The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

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.

There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.

Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Glory is of no use to the dead -Darth Bane

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.