“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 13
Hungarian American psychologist 1934Related quotes
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
Part 1: "The Creative Mind", §9 (p. 20)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.”
The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
Context: There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 16: Glacier Bay
1910s
As quoted in "World Bank confirms NYU's Romer as next chief economist" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-worldbank-economist-idUSKCN0ZZ05A Reuters. July 18, 2016.
“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
Holy Spirit takes care of early ‘wobbly knees’ https://catholicleader.com.au/news/holy-spirit-takes-care-of-early-wobbly-knees/ (9 July 2015)
“I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!!”
Journal entries (12 March 1915 and 15 March 1915) p. 41e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Context: I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!!
That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts.