Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

My message has always been about resilience.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

I always bounce back.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.