Constructing a happy life can be pleasant, interesting work.

"Sometimes desires pull in different directions at the same time. Such a condition creates acute mental unrest. Yet with care and application a solution can always be found by which the conflicting desires are reconciled".

"Our destructive tendencies are inherited from our animal ancestry. Some of them about which the demagogues rave are not very important one way or another. And those that are important will have far less psychokinetic power if they are not much noticed."

"Happiness does not come spontaneously. It is something to be acquired through developing appropriate habits. And like tennis, or taming a pet, it may be acquired by almost anyone who is willing to make a consistent effort."

Individuals who have learned to find pleasure in everything they do, who make effort to refine their bodies, intellects and feelings, and who have taken the pains to find harmonious channels of expression for all their insistent desires, are among the happiest people in the world".