“A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something were good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depr...”

“The opposite of play isnt work. Its depression.”

“Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your dreams and free of regret.”

“Nesses research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If its stayed in our gene pool for so long, he argues, there must be some evolutionary benefit. ...”

“No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happinessby working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15”

“The real world just doesnt offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesnt motivate u...”

“He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:but...”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add ple...”

“Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.”

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”

“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen' 'You make it sound so simple.''It is simple,...”

“Does the work get easier once you know what you are doing?""Your lungs grow thick with stone dust and your eyes bleary from the sun and fragments thrown up by the chisel. You pour your lifeblood ou...”