How to Be Single and Happy Quotes

“radical acceptance is being fully open to what is, just as it is, at this moment”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“To seem “perfect,” we have to dismiss our reasonable feelings and limits, to worry more about how we perform than how we truly feel.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Noticing mental traps is a great way to start living a happier, more fulfilling life, but sometimes unpleasant experiences pop up and prompt feelings that you can choose to either notice or overlook.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Regret = rumination + self-blame”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“If we’re too burdened by regret, we may feel so overwhelmed that we can’t think through opportunities and grow after our perceived setbacks.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“With a dose of compassion, we may have more faith in ourselves and feel hopeful that we can actually improve.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“our differences resurfaced. Which meant instead of either of us peacefully moving on, we were stuck in a prolonged purgatory.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“you find yourself creating idyllic futures, ultimate peace of mind resides in being in the current moment.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“I noticed that technology enhanced my ability to waste mental space and create emotional highs and lows.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Rumination gets in the way of our ability to shift our attention.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Ruminating isn’t only depressing for the person doing it; it upsets others.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Social networking and ruminating can feed off each other.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“There’s no way to prevent upsetting experiences but you can limit the duration of your pain by managing your mind.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“if you want to create depression, anxiety, and a host of other emotional ailments, in one word: ruminate.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“we need to remember that overthinking ruins our mood and drains our energy, making it that much more difficult to actually fix anything.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Letting go of assumptions, stereotypes, and affective forecasts and adopting a more hopeful perspective can increase your happiness.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“What we tell ourselves can also change our behaviors.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Mindfulness is about fully participating in activities instead of letting past pains or future worries contaminate your moments.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“it was mindfulness that offered me a way to reengage, and to escape the pain of imagining that my negative thoughts and feelings would last forever.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“The more I worked on entering the moment without wishing things were different, the less I worried about my future,”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“I was miserable because of what was going on in my mind, not my actual life.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Our ability to anticipate how we’ll feel in the future is imprecise, at best.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“you are more in control of your sense of well-being than you might assume.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“circumstances, like finances or relationship status, generally account for a smaller slice of the happiness equation than our deliberate behaviors.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have. —SOCRATES”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“the point of feeling joy is not to attract others, but to live well, because you deserve that.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Think about how much time you might be spending predicting anticipated aloneness or processing perceptions of rejection. Now think about this: Every minute you get stuck in unhelpful thoughts and feelings is time you’re not spending experiencing the moments of your life as they happen right now.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“The prospect of social exclusion reduced people’s capacity for intelligent thought.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate

“Studies led by neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett and her team suggest that people who are more skilled in figuring out what they’re feeling are likelier to use strategies to reduce negative emotions and increase positive ones than people less able to distinguish their 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 (as we covered in chapters 5 and 6). These practices are like emotional deposits in your bank account that provide a safety net when inevitable withdrawals hit you.”
― Jenny Taitz, How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate