"We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't."

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Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage

Daniel Gilbert

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“The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.”
“Religions do not teach doubt.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.322, Spectra
“Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.”

Source : David Ebershoff (2008). “The 19th Wife”, p.260, Random House
“I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.”
“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
“You're out of luck like two dogs stuck.”
“It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over”

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