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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has 146 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them…
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Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or…
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.…
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Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
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Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
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Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results…
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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or…
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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to…
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Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…
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The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human…
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The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,…
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been…
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
— David Morrell
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…
— Horace Mann
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