Quotes
Authors
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Happiness Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.”
“You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.”
“Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.”

Source : "Cherien Dabis: Writer, Director, Accidental Actress". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2014.
“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”
“When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.”
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”
“Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.”
“This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition”

Source : Freethought Today, April 2000.

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