Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

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

However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

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

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.