Quotes About Happiness

Dopamine is not just about reward anticipation; it fuels the goal-directed behavior needed to gain that reward; dopamine "binds" the value of a reward to the resulting work. It's about the motivation arising from those dopaminergic projections to the PFC that is needed to do the harder thing (i.e., to work). In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.fn50,99

In a community coursed through by energies every road leads to a worthwhile goal, provided one doesn't hesitate or reflect too long. Targets are short-term, but since life is short too, results are maximized, which is all people need to be happy, because the soul is formed by what you accomplish, whereas what you desire without achieving it merely warps the soul. Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is.

Happiness, after all, depends for the most part not on one's ability to resolve contradictions but on making them disappear, the way the gaps between trees disappear when we look down a long avenue of them.

Människorna är oändligt glada om man lämnar dem i den situationen att de inte kan förverkliga sina idéer!

There is no great happiness without great taboos. Even in business, to pursue one's advantage at all costs is to risk getting nowhere. Keeping within one's limits is the secret of all phenomena, of power, happiness, faith, and the key to the task of maintaining oneself as a tiny human creature within the universe.

jedes einzelne war hässlich, und alles zusammen war Glück.

When one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten

Were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy? Was our happiness tonight like the light of the moon, which does not come from the moon, for the moon is cold and has no light of its own, but is reflected light from far away?

If the human race didn't remember anything it would be perfectly happy.

the endless easy joy that came with pissing into the morning sun.

In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.

What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and won't be enough tomorrow.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Epicurus

Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough.

The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well sort of way.

Most addictions are attempts to find happiness in people's souls. This

For most people, the reason they don't win financially is because the pain of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich.

La frase no se puede convierte a la gente fuerte en débil, ciega a personas que pueden ver, entristece a la gente feliz, convierte a los valientes en cobardes, le quita a un genio su sagacidad, causa que la gente rica piense pobremente, y limita los logros de esa gran persona que vive dentro de todos nosotros".

Walt Disney became very rich by making millions of people happy. And Henry Ford became very rich by making the automobile affordable for the working class.

What would my life be like if I never had to work again?" "What

Money does not make you happy. Never think that you will be happy when you get rich. If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are you will not be happy when you do get rich. So whether you are rich or poor, make sure you are happy.

the pain of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich.

Life was meant to be enjoyed.

To us, making money, getting rich, and having an abundant lifestyle is fun.