Biswas Diener Quotes

#1. Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.

William Henry Drummond

#2. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.

Naoki Higashida

#3. Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#4. I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Robert Biswas-Diener

#5. The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#6. Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times ... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#7. I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

Macaulay Culkin

#8. No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

Charles Baudelaire

#9. [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

Kate Clinton

#10. I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Deepak Chopra

#11. The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

Teri Hatcher

#13. No. I'm not buying a shirt."
I could buy you a shirt."
I don't need you to buy me a shirt."
Mercedes pulled him over to the nice GQ-dude who worked the department. "Tell him he needs a new shirt."
I don't need a new shirt."
Sir, you need a new shirt.

Kathleen O'Reilly

#14. Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Gary Rohrmayer

#15. I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

James Bobin

#16. Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#17. It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being

David Cameron

#18. Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Robert Biswas-Diener