Essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing what you love while being surrounded by the people who love you.
Walk slowly and you’ll go far.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.
There is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them.
Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.
There is no future, no past. There is only the present.
The happiest people are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow.
We’re all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you’re born to die.
Be led by your curiosity, and keep busy by doing things that fill you with meaning and happiness.
It is much more important to have a compass pointing to a concrete objective than to have a map.
When confronted with a big goal, try to break it down into parts and then attack each part one by one.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable amount of time is essential to difficult achievement.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
As the quip attributed to Einstein goes, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That is relativity.