Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

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

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there