Diener Quotes & Sayings

You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that
it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going. — Michelle Diener

He was all but shouting, stalking toward her. He grabbed her arms and gave her a little shake. "This time, the bastards don't win. I win."
"What do you win?" she whispered.
He bent his head and crushed his lips to hers. — Michelle Diener

Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10. — Ed Diener

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore. — Young Jeezy

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

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

I think he's quite aware , as is everyone here, that you don't need to worm your way into my bed, Miss Raven." He stepped away from her. "You need only crook your finger and I would be ripping your clothes off your body. — Michelle Diener

She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton. — Michelle Diener

Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit of important goals, the experience of positive emotional feelings, and a sense of spirituality that connects people to things larger than themselves. — Ed Diener

It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances. — Ed Diener

I'm fairly tired of hipsters. They have terrible taste in music. These kids come in and say, 'You don't have anything that was released this year?' That makes me crazy. We don't need anything from this year! (Bob Diener, owner of Record Swap in Champaign, IL) — Eric Spitznagel

I have a choice. I can whine about things that have happened, and can't be undone, or I can make the best of the situation I'm in. — Michelle Diener

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it. — Tim Conway

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. — Terry Goodkind

Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I'd like your expert advice.
Of course not. You would use boiling oil. — Kresley Cole

Of anyone, I know better than most we are what we make ourselves. — Michelle Diener

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

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

She hadn't seen him since yesterday, and Charlotte did not understand the sensation that gripped her at the sight of him.
As if she were a lightning rod, waiting for the storm above to strike. As if she had lost all control over her life and was thrown into chaos. — Michelle Diener

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

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

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. — John Gielgud

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice. — Julian Lennon