Joy

“The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.”
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“The key thing to appreciate, though, is that what is most important to us, most of the time, is not the objective results of decisions, but the subjective results.”
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“The very wealth of options before us may turn us from choosers into pickers. A chooser is someone who thinks actively about the possibilities before making a decision. A chooser reflects on what's important to him or her in life, what's important about this particular decision, and what the short- and long-range consequences of the decision may be. A chooser makes decisions in a way that reflects awareness of what a given choice means about him or her as a person. Finally, a chooser is thoughtful enough to conclude that perhaps none of the available alternatives are satisfactory, and that if he or she wants the right alternative, he or she might have to create it. A picker does none of these things.”
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

“We are free to be the authors of our own lives, but we don't know what kind of lives we want to 'write.”
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less