To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

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.

He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

If you only love 70% of yourself, that's what is going to come back to you.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.