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Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Total quotes: 4

Daniel Gilbert

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Nationality: Sweden

Total quotes: 4

“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.”

— Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness

Tagged: Future, Human Behavior

“Apparently, gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.”

— Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness

Tagged: Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness, Happiness, How To Be Happy, emotions

“Mattering makes us happy.”

— Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness

Tagged: Happiness, Mattering, Belonging

“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub, and we do each of these things in the charitable service of the people we will soon become.”

— Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness

Tagged: Happiness, The future, Moderation, Life, Living Like You're Dying

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