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Living Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
- Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we…
- Purpose provides activation energy for living.
- Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing…
- When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
- Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
- A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
- 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…
- 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…
- Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — 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
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov