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“The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.”

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Author:Norman Douglas

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”

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Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning