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“Flow-the state in which people are so involved in any activity that nothing else seems to matter.”

“Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful. But in the long run optimal experiences add up to a mastery -or perhaps better, a sense of participation in determining the content of life- that comes as close to what is usually meant by happiness as anything else we can conceivably imagine.”

“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”