#games

During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement with the world around us. We feel fully alive, full of potential and purpose--in other words, we are completely activated as human beings. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games #happiness #human-potential #change

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#death

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #death

Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#design

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dream #dreams #love #peaceful #sad

She's Prim's size in diameter. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games #hunger #hunger-games #funny

You're lucky I was on that roof all day. That old man... he was trying to sell you a Sega product. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#games #humor #sega #humor

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life #the-hunger-games #life

My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#friendly #hunger-games #katniss-everdeen #smile #spirit

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gaze #happy #hunger-games #kiss #love