Hector Garcia

According to researcher Owen Schaffer of DePaul University, the requirements for achieving flow are:
Knowing what to do
Knowing how to do it
Knowing how well you are doing
Knowing where to go (where navigation is involved)
Perceiving significant challenges
Perceiving significant skills
Being free from distractions1

Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.
—Japanese proverb

Okinawans live by the principle of ichariba chode, a local expression that means “treat everyone like a brother, even if you’ve never met them before.”

yuimaaru, or teamwork, and so are used to helping one another.

our ikigai is the reason we get up in the morning.

moai is an informal group of people with common interests who look out for one another.

ens sana in corpore sano” (“a sound mind in a sound body”): It reminds us that both mind and body are important, and that the health of one is connected to that of the other.

serenity in the face of a setback

“The life you live is equally or more important for longevity,”

“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.”