The Book of Joy. The Sunday Times Bestseller

taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life.

When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share.

Research suggests that cultivating your own joy and happiness has benefits not just for you, but also for others in your life.

our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a challenge, our body responds very differently.

When anger develops, think, what is the cause? And then also think, what will be the result of my anger, my angry face, or my shouting? Then you will realize that anger is not helpful.”

Generosity was so important for our survival that the reward centers of our brain light up as strongly when we give as when we receive, sometimes even more

I am just one human being talking to other human beings.

“It’s taught that the best way to create good karma with the least amount of effort is to rejoice in your good deeds and those of others.” Rejoicing predisposes us to repeat those good deeds in the future.

The things that divide us (our ethnicity, our race, our nationality, even our gender) are much less significant than the things that unite us: our common humanity, our human emotions, and our fundamental desire to be happy and avoid suffering.