To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

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.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

All I desire is to be so happy that I die.

God is the vessel of love that gives wings to our prayers

Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

Prayer is the passport to peace.