Rick Riordan Quotes

Feeling better is not actually being better.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

You are not living, you are surviving.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Enemy giants moved towards the breech, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. He yelled something to his fellow blacksmiths – probably ‘FOR POSEIDON!’ – but with his mouth full of peanut butter it sounded like, ‘PUH PTEH BUN.’ His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, ‘PEANUT BUTTER!’ and charged behind Tyson into battle.

I feel healthy, I feel happy.

it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.