“I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.” ThinkingComedyEmotionalIntellectualLogicPursuitAnalysis Author:Ricky Gervais
“By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.” ShouldLongI CanWholeBodyMightMovingSidesSpaceRoomsEmotionalTerribleLetting GoShould HaveWhole LifePursuitDistractionLong LifeElusiveDietingTracking Author:Sallie Tisdale
“Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.” PeopleNeedsHumansHas BeensEnoughEnergyEmotionalSourcePursuitEndlessConsumersGoodsExcessConsumptionMaking People HappyEnergy SourcesEmotional NeedsNo Energy Author:Tim DeChristopher
“We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an erroneous concept because we are emotional, thinking beings that are constantly affected by a hundred things around us and inside us.” ThinkingCultureWorryWrittenEmotionalHundredConceptsConstitutionPursuitAffectedPursuit Of Happiness Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.” WayMindSoundResultsQualityEmotionalBalanceSkillsTrainingInner PeacePursuitEndlessPleasantRecipesExhaustionBenevolentCultivatingTraining The MindEmotional Balance Author:Matthieu Ricard