We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.

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 only need to move your body to the rhythm of the music.

Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you.

No one feels good at four in the morning.If ants feel good at four in the morning—three cheers for the ants.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

I am more important than my problems.

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.