Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

-- Jack Ma

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Hopper

Open the shoji screen and look outside; the world is vast.

-- Sakichi Toyoda

The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains.

-- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

-- Mary Cassatt

Don't tell me I can't do it; don't tell me it can't be done.

-- Howard Hughes