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

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It seems that every time a pressing danger is avoided a new and more sophisticated threat appears on the horizon...Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

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

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.