...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.