You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

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.

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.

I listen to my heart and mind when I plan the things, but I cannot support those, who do not listen to their heart and

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.

He has the etiquette of a frog

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.