A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“no worthwhile effort in one’s life is either a success or a failure.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“To improve life one must improve the quality of experience.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“This paradox of rising expectations suggests that improving the quality of life might be an insurmountable task. In fact, there is no… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning of life?” turns out to be astonishingly simple. The meaning of life is meaning: whatever it is, wherever… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill?… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Stern responds to the question about what was the main obstacle he encountered in his life: I think it’s that rubbishy part… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“the life of average people, we find the other side of the glittering coin of gregariousness: the most painful events are also… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how to the mind filters and interprets… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“In Erikson’s words: “A meaningful old age…serves the need for that integrated heritage which gives indispensable perspective on the life cycle. Strength… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Strand sees his main skill as just paying attention to the textures and rhythms of life, being receptive to the multifaceted, constantly… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“A second level of analysis for conceptualizing spirituality is in terms of personalized goals or strivings, or what Emmons and colleagues have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth...But these transformations require that a person be prepared to perceive unexpected… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Wisdom and integrity cannot be found in any single domain. A broader viewpoint that breaks across disciplinary boundaries is needed, a way of understanding… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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