We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.

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.

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

Focus is saying no to 1, 000 good ideas.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Judaism is an historical religion.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

You never have to question something that's real.