There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.

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.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.