We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

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.

Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.

I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.