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

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.

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.

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

When in doubt, reinforce your self-trust.

But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.

The real war will never get in the books.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Make what you most need to find

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.