There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there