DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Basketball was my thing I was always able to use to forget everything.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

You got to be interested in other things. If you focus on one thing, you're going to eventually - like, you're going to get bored with it, or you're going to get burned out on it.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.

Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.

I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.