A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.