Daniel Gilbert Quotes

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

The key to success is emotional stability.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.