Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

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.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.