Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Figure out what questions you'd ask to see if you were happy with your life. Then wake up every day and live intentionally, so you're happy with the answers at the end.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

I know many lives worth living.

People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for that experience. That's why we continue to go to the movies and watch television.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

Live your life to the fullest.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

A life well used procures a happy death.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.