To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. Th…

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it.…

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

- 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 something that…

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish …

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi