I’m not getting any sleep, she said. I’ve already given up caffeine. What else can I do? Lots of things, I said, prepared to rattle off the tips that I’d uncovered in my research. Near your bedtime, d...
Happiness, wrote Yeats, is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
Happiness, wrote Yeats, is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn’t goal...
Happy people generally are more forgiving, helpful, and charitable, have better self-control, and are more tolerant of frustration than unhappy people, while unhappy people are more often withdrawn, d...
Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and No one else can make me happy.
He gave his assistant a stamped, addressed envelope with a check he’d written to an anti-charity, an organization whose policies he passionately opposes, with the instruction to mail the check if he h...
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.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I give myself limits to give myself freedom.
There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my actions.
How a couple fights matters more than how much they fight.
How about this, I suggested. Instead of feeling that you’ve blown the day and thinking, ‘I’ll get back on track tomorrow,’ try thinking of each day as a set of four quarters: morning, midday, afternoo...
Scheduling makes us far more likely to convert an activity into a habit (well, except for Rebels), so for that reason, I schedule even some slightly ridiculous habits, such as Kiss Jamie every morning...
How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.
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.
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.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Autobiography
I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can’t DO EVERYTHING I want.
I did, however, vow to stop reading books that I didn’t enjoy. I used to pride myself on finishing every book I started—no longer.
Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
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