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People can’t understand things before they can understand them.
most of life: breaking your own promises to yourself.”
Sometimes anybody really isn’t better than nobody.
After all, if someone were admiring me, I’d want to know.
happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.”
“The more you register good things,” she went on, “the more you will think about and remember good things. And since all you really have left of the past is what you remember—” “It changes the story of your life.”
“The things you think about determine the things you think about”—meaning the more you focus on something, the more likely your brain is to focus on it.
They wind up liking the wanting more than the having.”
The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy.” “It doesn’t?” I asked. “Not for long. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”
