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

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.

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.

Accept God’s best for your life.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

I'm a very proud actor.

Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

There is no almost in giving your all.

In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.