Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Way Quotations

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.