« All Happiness Quotes · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Page
Happiness Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not…
- The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It…
- And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not…
- Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for…
- Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
- ..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental…
- It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look…
- How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we…
- A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
- It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are…
- Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing…
- If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey…
- Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as…
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach