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“A happy life is a compromise between the free-spirited cortex and the dictatorial reward system. Not everyone needs to rid themselves of all desire. All we need to do is balance the budget. In the long run, it is not important where we derive our satisfaction—how we handle it makes a lot more difference. Our behavior pushes us toward fixing problems and achieving goals, but that road does not lead anywhere. No goal-directed act can bring long-term satisfaction, because reaching the goal always creates a new goal—we react to changes, not to specific states.”
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“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is said to be good, bad, bright, dynamic, apathetic and so on. People are not like that. We can say of a man that is more often good than bad, more often bright than stupid, and vice versa; but it would be wrong to say of one individual that he is good or bright; and the other is bad or stupid. But that is how we always divide people up. And it is wrong.”
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