"Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy."

-- Daniel Gilbert

#People Quotes #Behavior Quotes #Motivated Quotes

“We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.”
“While I didn't grow up in a family where there was domestic violence I knew of families in my neighbourhood where abuse was happening. I wanted to be part of the Women's Aid Real Man campaign to send out the message that real men don't abuse their partners or their children.”
“In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.”
“We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.”
“I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.”
“Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.”
“God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.”
“Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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