We all know the secret of dieting...it's the application that's challenging. p 7
It’s hard to do even simple things well, and most things aren’t simple. As
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I can’t make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change.
When I think of myself in the third person, many things become clearer.
People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by...
Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. You
Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.
My idea of this is the kind of person I am is so bound up in my habits and actions that it’s hard for me to see. But eventually, I realized that my sense of identity makes it easier or harder to chang...
Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and No one else can make me happy.
When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
People take less food when using tongs, instead of spoons, to serve themselves.
Physical activity is the magical elixir of practically everything.
However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.
We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people,
The days are long, but the years are short...
Remember, the reason to clear clutter is because, somehow, that clutter is diminishing your happiness. If you don’t care, don’t bother.
It’s fun to fail, I kept repeating. It’s part of being ambitious; it’s part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.
Perhaps—like writing, leadership, and a sense of humor—good habits are something that must be learned, but can’t be taught.
Second Splendid TruthOne of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.One of the best ways to make other people happy is to e happy yourself. p 147
Researchers were surprised to find, write Roy Baumeister and John Tierney in their fascinating book Willpower, that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people...
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