{"author":"Evan Sutter","author_id":"Evan+Sutter","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Mental illness is a bigger problem than obesity and cardiovascular diseases in the modern western world but still we pay no homage to the philosophy of watching what we watch. We only worry about what we put in the body in the form of food and care very little, if at all, with what we consume in our minds.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["happiness","media","mental-illness","mindfulness","modern-world","philosophy","society","solitude"],"id":15214,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["confidence","confidence-and-attitude","happiness","happiness","individualism","individuality","know-thyself","know-yourself"],"id":17627,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["body","health","mind","mindfulness","spirituality"],"id":18662,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"We consume so we never have to answer the hard questions. When we are bored we eat. When we are lonely we watch a movie, read the newspaper, jump on social media. Each time we do we cover up our real emotions and keep throwing another layer of confusion and anxiety on top, making it almost impossible to dig ourselves out of the hole, or at least see which way is up.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["boredom","consumption","distraction","happiness","life","loneliness","society"],"id":99229,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"When we have simplicity we have so much more freedom in every single aspect of our lives. Maybe it's a classic case of less is more? Less stress, less worries, more time, more happiness.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["freedom","happiness","life","philosophy","simplicity","simplicity-in-life","time"],"id":117186,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"I think success might be one of the most overused words in the western world, and maybe if we changed success for happiness we would be better off, because when you get this ‘success’ will it make you happier? Are we chasing money, fame, power, ego, success, or are we chasing happiness, freedom and the feeling of being content?","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["freedom","happiness","life","money","philosophy","power-ego","success","success"],"id":191468,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"What is it you really want? Are you really going to be happy when you get the object? What will it bring you? Is what you’re telling yourself really true? You have the choice, you can keep on getting hit by the wave or you can get the courage to run towards it and dive right through it - everything starts with you.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["change","happiness","know-thyself","mindfulness","transform","why"],"id":201903,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["boredom","happiness","know-thyself","loneliness","mind-body-spirit","mindfulness","technology-addiction"],"id":203382,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"This inability to just do nothing is a direct result of our habit of externalisation. As children we are never taught in schools, or in social settings, to look within ourselves for answers. Whether it is that our answers are found in some sort of religion, or another person, or in something else, we start to make this common practice. We are indecisive in life looking to friends, family, counsellors, teachers, and even strangers for advice. We are never taught or, better yet, shown how to look after our number one relationship in life, which is the relationship with one’s self.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["happiness","know-thyself","know-yourself","mindfulness","to-live-by","religion-and-philosophy"],"id":223072,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"},{"text":"The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.","author":"Evan Sutter","tags":["busy","distraction","doing","happiness","life","mindfulness","modern-world","stop","stress"],"id":237903,"author_id":"Evan+Sutter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}