Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.

If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.