Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happiness is not a goal, it's a by-product.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness - it has no taste.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Maybe happiness isn't what you believe, but who you believe.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let's face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds). I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

If you are feeling lost in Life, celebrate. Because only when you are lost, can you find your true Self and discover true Happiness!