How to Be Single and Happy Quotes

“Setting a goal and working to achieve it doesn’t ensure success, no matter how diligently we try, and that leads to disappointment, one of the most depressing emotions. Disappointment can make us feel powerless, and psychologists actually talk about two different types: outcome-related disappointment (when things didn’t go as we’d hoped) and person-related disappointment (when people let us down). Dating”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“remembering that a lonely mind may be clouding your perspective can help you think more clearly”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“In animal studies, social isolation actually diminishes brain size, and in humans, brain studies show that people who describe themselves as lonely show reduced density in a brain region linked to social cognition (the left posterior superior temporal sulcus, to be exact).”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Creating closeness with others can keep you resilient, while feeling lonely seems to intensify pain.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“the less time you devote to work, the more productive you may end up being.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Life is too short to be busy.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“most of us fill our schedules with unnecessary tasks or misjudge how limited our time actually is.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“The ability to swap automatic unhelpful thoughts with more encouraging ones takes awareness, willingness, and effort.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Emotions come and go, like visitors passing, unless we invite them in to stay. Ruminating is one way we prolong emotions,”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Another way to reduce vulnerability is to think about what you value and what brings you joy”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Practicing mindfulness is one way to strengthen your ability to recover from challenges.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Once you’re especially vulnerable and deluged by painful thoughts, it takes a lot of work not to act on your emotions.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“To live expansively, you need to sit with your feelings, especially ones that feel tricky, rather than indulge in the urge to push unpleasant emotions away.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Just as in other areas of life, believing you can cope with your emotions actually predicts that you will be able to manage them well.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience. —PAUL CÉZANNE”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Applying mindfulness techniques can help broaden your perspective of yourself.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“It makes more sense to more flexibly zoom out to see the full picture of yourself;”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Hope preserves our inner resources so we can put our energy toward achieving what matters most, like building a life filled with love and meaning.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Instead of searching for certainty, which is impossible, we can practice reappraisal—shifting our focus to think about what we can control, then taking actions that are consistent with our values.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Accepting uncertainty is a crucial part of happiness in life.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“My mindfulness of thoughts practice has helped me see these mental events as opportunities to get out of my head and into my values of health and action, independent of my motivation.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Life is often ambiguous”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong, no matter how ill or hopeless you may feel.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Not only does mindfulness reduce pain, practicing paying attention seems to enhance joy.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“If you can mindfully notice your thoughts and emotions, catching them before they intensify, you’ll have an easier time coping”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“how quickly certain ideas can permeate our minds, then go on to affect our moods and actions, all of which makes it more difficult to let our values guide our behavior.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Researchers who study happiness say that much of it has to do with our actions, not just our circumstances,”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Acceptance isn’t easy, but it’s less draining than fighting a battle you’ll never win.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“When we let go of fighting reality, we have more energy to solve problems.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“a fork in the road where you have the option to choose openness rather than attachment to whatever it is that you want that isn’t immediately available.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate