Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

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.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.