Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

You there is such a thing as a door, " I whispered. "You should try it some time.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.