The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.

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.

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

He didn’t know what was hotter, her Star Wars reference or the breathiness with which she spoke it.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

People don't buy from clowns.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.