The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

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.

I can't resist that's why I exist to take you there kissed

Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

Love will let you want and trust in Miracles.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.