Lore De Silvestri R.’s Reviews > Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience > Status Update

“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.”

“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.”

“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.”