Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.