Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Happiness lies in your own hand

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

We were birthed with one soul to take care of, and we must take care of it.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

Happiness is an inside job.

I'm not a tortured soul.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.