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Us Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
- We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy…
- When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of…
- Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to…
- Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It…
- Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty…
- We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
- 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 quickly…
- I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream;…
- The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells…
- To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for…
- The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
- Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
- Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average…
- If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is…
- Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino