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

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.