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“Even just trying, I decided, could be an act of bravery in itself.”
― Happiness for Beginners
― Happiness for Beginners
“The things you think about determine the things you think about”—meaning the more you focus on something, the more likely your brain is to focus on it.”
― Happiness for Beginners
― Happiness for Beginners
“Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.”
― Happiness for Beginners
― Happiness for Beginners
“But the things we remember are what we hold on to, and what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. We only get one story. And I am determined to make mine a good one.”
― Happiness for Beginners
― Happiness for Beginners
“I gave you Jake because you’re headstrong and accident prone, and he’s our medic and I trust him to patch you up. I gave you Jake because you’re the best map reader we’ve got, and he’s damn near blind. And I gave you Jake because you absolutely never believe in yourself—and he finds a way to believe in you every damn day.”
― Happiness for Beginners
― Happiness for Beginners
Renee’s 2024 Year in Books
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