Quotes from Janice Kaplan

It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust

A central theme was recognizing what is in your control and what isn't—and acting on the one and ignoring the other. It's a philosophy that has resonated over the centuries. Reading

Daniel Kahneman says ruminating on what went wrong makes evolutionary sense. Our ancestors survived by remembering the one poisonous berry they encountered and telling their friends about it. Describing the ten tasty ones didn't do much good at all. We

In other words, even though they might be doing better than boys at school (as is often the case), girls have gotten the message that the boys are supposed to be the smart ones.

It's such a waste of mental energy to be furious that something isn't the way you want it to be. Fighting life is what causes problems. When you can accept life on life's terms, you pave the way for a measure of peace that you miss otherwise," she said.

reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.

Me explicó que, para él, las mejores relaciones son una «alternancia entre tormentas y sol frente a un cielo permanentemente nublado».

Researchers have found that people who write down three things they're grateful for every night (or even a few times a week) improve their well-being and lower their risk of depression.

It's one thing to think that your job has a purpose, and it's another to meet a specific person who cares, appreciates, and values what you do," Grant told me. "The call center people got a new sense of their worth—not only on the job but as individuals.

chemical causes and effects of emotion also show connections to exercise. A substance called kynurenine builds up in your bloodstream when you're stressed, and it can pass into the brain and cause the damaging inflammation that leads to depression. Researchers in

The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole

taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.