”The only solution to achieve enduring happiness, therefore, is to keep finding new opportunities to refine one’s skills: do one’s job better or faster, or expand the tasks that comprise it; find a new set of challenges more appropriate to your stage of life. Paradoxically, the feeling of happiness is only realised after the event. To acknowledge it at the time would only serve as distraction.”

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and author of 18 books on the subject of happiness including ’’FLOW: The Classic Work On How To Achieve Happiness’’, from his article for The Times (London, 9/19/05) entitled The Secrets of Happiness.
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