Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long & Happy Life - Quotes

Quotes from the book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles:

• Walk slowly and you’ll go far.
• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
• Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.
• There is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them.
• He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle
• There is no future, no past. There is only the present.
• When confronted with a big goal, try to break it down into parts and then attack each part one by one.
• To focus on a task we need: 1. To be in a distraction-free environment 2. To have control over what we are doing at every moment.
• To be able to concentrate for a considerable amount of time is essential to difficult achievement.
• Have a clear, concrete objective.
• Happiness is in the doing, not in the result.