Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

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.

His gaze drops to my lips. "I shouldn't do this--""You really should." And I close the distance between us.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.