When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.

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.

I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.

Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.

Sam: I've never considered myself a finicky eater. No pie ever crossed my path and survived.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.