« Positive thoughts of the evening. This exercise is a classic of positive psychology. It consists of asking each evening shortly before falling asleep: what good times have I lived today? Often, the people to whom this work is offered begin by looking not for good times but for great moments, great joys. In fact, it is simply small pleasures that we suggest to evoke, in a simple way. We have work to show the benefits of these exercises. Benefits that seem even clearer when asked to focus these positive thoughts on states of gratitude: how are these good times that I experienced due to other people? Thinking then of the direct gestures that I benefited from, but also indirect: the humans who created and maintained the path on which I walked, those who wrote and played the music I listened to, grow the fruit I eat... »

« In general, the urgency is noisy and mobilizes us; hard to resist him. While the important is silent, and lets itself be forgotten, quietly, very gently. »

« Waking up happy? "I wake up in the morning with a secret joy; I see the light with a kind of rapture. All the rest of the day, I'm happy. This lucky man from Montesquieu! Personally, it doesn't often occur to wake up in the morning with a secret joy. But it doesn't matter, I like to work there anyway, stubbornly. I had been obstinate for years when I fell, I don't know where, on this formula that delighted me: "The stubbornness to be happy." That's right, that's exactly it... »