Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.