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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to…
— Mark Twain
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
— Seneca the Younger
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their…
— William James
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of…
— Seneca the Younger
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Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.
— John Templeton
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Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
— Dalai Lama
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Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
— Samuel Johnson
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I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances,…
— Lester Sumrall
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