“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.”Tagged: Future, Human Behavior
“Apparently, gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.”Tagged: Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness, Happiness, How To Be Happy, emotions
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.”Tagged: Happiness, Luck, Fortune, Fame
“Imagination cannot easily transcend the boundaries of the present, and one reason for this is that it must borrow machinery that is owned by perception. The fact that these two processes must run on the same platform means that we are sometimes confused about which one is running. We assume that…”Tagged: Perception, Happiness, Imagination, Reality
“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be…”Tagged: Happiness, The future, Moderation, Life, Living Like You're Dying