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

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.

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

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

Every man produces only to the capacity of their philosophies of life or doctrines as we Christians call it.

for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

I don't hold water with that theory

If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord