“To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have...we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us.… — John Seymour Copy Share Image
“One day [Rabbi Spear] talked about his theory of happiness. He proposed that human feelings respond only to contrast and change, not to constancy, just as eyesight responds to contrasts of light and dark and to movement. The rabbi speculated… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
![“One day [Rabbi Spear] talked about his theory of happiness. He proposed that human feelings respond only to contrast and change, not to constancy, just as eyesight responds to contrasts of light and dark and to movement. The rabbi speculated that if emotions are similar to eyesight and other…” quote by Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/67d/alan-lightman-2270_happiness_one-day-rabbi-spear-talked-about-his-the_2624614.jpg)