I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an aft….

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression..

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you tal….

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting..

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

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

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new..

Nourish the world with your words, yo..

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

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy..

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

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years..

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

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter..

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 anxiet….

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-c….

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at t….

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness..

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 wor….

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for ….

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent..