""A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.""
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life)

"The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)