“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
“Training the mind can get us to a place of flow more quickly. Meditation is one way to exercise our mental muscles.”
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
“Avoid spending time doing things we don’t enjoy”
― Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
― Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
“His experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz showed him that “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
― Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
“At a certain point, a casual observer might feel that these pursuers of perfection are going over the top, and that the effort is too much. Just at that moment, something miraculous happens. You realize that there is actually further depth to the quality you are pursuing. There is a breakthrough, or the production of something completely different. With the creation of a new genre of products, a brand new market emerges, in which people are prepared to pay premium prices for qualities previously unimagined.”
― Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day
― Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day
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