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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

Hector Garcia Puigcerver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react that matters.”

“We don't create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.”

“a happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.”

“Stop regretting the past and fearing the future. Today is all you have. Make the most of it. Make it worth remembering.”

“appreciate the beauty of imperfection as an opportunity for growth.”

“We don’t create the meaning of our life, as Sartre claimed—we discover it.”

“Only things that are imperfect, incomplete, and ephemeral can truly be beautiful, because only those things resemble the natural world.”

“Instead of worrying about the past or the future, we should appreciate things just as they are in the moment, in the now.”

“Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.”

“when you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you.”

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Book Keywords:

accepting, feelings, ikigai, life, therapy

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