"Which is more important - experience or memory……" — Daniel Gilbert
"Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?"
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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral…
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not…
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the…
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will.…
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The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room,…
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What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do…
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won?…
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In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths…
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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to…
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We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things…
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Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set…
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More Ecstasy Quotes
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must…
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
— Walter Russell
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism,…
— Martin Seligman
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the…
— Carl Sagan
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