If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.