Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

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.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Her words didn’t have the acrid smell of death.

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.

All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.