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> [Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/happiness-refers-to-feelings-virtue-refers-to-actions-and-those/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

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## More by Daniel Gilbert

> [Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/because-your-brain-uses-information-from-the-areas-around-the-blind/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/your-emotions-are-meant-to-fluctuate-just-like-your-blood-pressure-is/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/no-one-likes-to-be-criticized-of-course-but-if-the-things-we/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/the-mistakes-we-make-when-we-try-to-imagine-our-personal-futures-are/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [“As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/as-students-of-the-silver-screen-recall-bogart-s-admonition-about/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/reality-is-a-movie-generated-by-our-brains-because-we-don-t-realize/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [“Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/despite-the-third-word-of-the-title-this-is-not-an-instruction-manual/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/the-truth-is-bad-things-don-t-affect-us-as-profoundly-as-we-expect/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/our-brain-accepts-what-the-eyes-see-and-our-eye-looks-for-whatever/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/perceptions-are-portraits-not-photographs-and-their-form-reveals-the/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/we-treat-our-future-selves-as-though-they-were-our-children-spending/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [“The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what they eye sees, but in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/the-brain-and-the-eye-may-have-a-contractual-relationship-in-which/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/the-human-brain-is-the-only-object-in-the-known-universe-that-can/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/as-the-philosopher-john-stuart-mill-wrote-it-is-better-to-be-a-human/)

[Daniel Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-gilbert/)

> [The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-gilbert/the-secret-of-happiness-is-variety-but-the-secret-of-variety-like-the/)

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