Daniel Gilbert (psychologist) - Happy Quotes

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We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

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Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

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