Ikigai Quotes

“essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“Walk slowly and you’ll go far.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“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.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“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.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“There is a tension between what is good for someone and what they want to do. This is because people, especially older people, like to do things as they've always done them. The problem is that when the brain develops ingrained habits, it doesn't need to think anymore. Things get done very quickly and efficiently on automatic pilot, often in a very advantageous way. This creates a tendency to stick to routines, and the only way of breaking these is to confront the brain with new information.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz

“there is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“We have to learn to turn off the autopilot that’s steering us in an endless loop. We all know people who snack while talking on the phone or watching the news. You ask them if the omelet they just ate had onion in it, and they can’t tell you,”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Our ikigai is different for all of us, but one thing we have in common is that we are all searching for meaning.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz

“There is no future, no past. There is only the present.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Getting back to Albert Einstein, “a happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.”4”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“We’re all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you’re born to die.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“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.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“Be led by your curiosity, and keep busy by doing things that fill you with meaning and happiness.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Metabolism slows down 90 percent after 30 minutes of sitting.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“When confronted with a big goal, try to break it down into parts and then attack each part one by one.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“It is much more important to have a compass pointing to a concrete objective than to have a map.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz

“Presented with new information, the brain creates new connections and is revitalized. This is why it is so important to expose yourself to change, even if stepping outside your comfort zone means feeling a bit of anxiety.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those who claim to be good at multitasking are not very productive. In fact, they are some of the least productive people. Our brains can take million bits of information but can only actually process of few dozen per second. When we say we're multitasking, what we're really doing is switching back and forth between tasks very quickly. Unfortunately, we're not computers adept at parallel processing. We end up spending all our energy alternative between tasks, instead of focusing on doing one of them well. Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz

“the people who live the longest have two dispositional traits in common: a positive attitude and a high degree of emotional awareness. In other words, those who face challenges with a positive outlook and are able to manage their emotions are already well on their way toward longevity.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Morita explained the idea of letting go of negative feelings with the following fable: A donkey that is tied to a post by a rope will keep walking around the post in an attempt to free itself, only to become more immobilized and attached to the post. The same thing applies to people with obsessive thinking who become more trapped in their own suffering when they try to escape from their fears and discomfort.5”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“Spend no more than twenty minutes on Facebook per day”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“To be able to concentrate for a considerable amount of time is essential to difficult achievement”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“simply interacting with others—playing a game, for example—offers new stimuli and helps prevent the depression that can come with solitude.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“to focus on a task we need: 1. To be in a distraction-free environment 2. To have control over what we are doing at every moment”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“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.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“Being in a hurry is inversely proportional to quality of”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life