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In moments like this, with her children gathered around her, she felt as though the joy of what she had might just outweigh all the terror she had suffered, and she would try to focus on what he had given her, not what he had taken away.
“This is taking in the good: activating a positive experience and installing it in your brain.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
“Meanwhile, less active connections wither away in a process sometimes called neural Darwinism: the survival of the busiest.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
“so it was best to enjoy the moments when they were around and not to worry about the future.”
― The September House
― The September House
“To quote the supposedly great but mostly incomprehensible Søren Kierkegaard—‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― The Wishing Game
― The Wishing Game
“Repeated mental/neural activity leaves lasting changes in neural structure: what’s called experience-dependent neuroplasticity.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
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