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“Thus, evolution has shaped our brains so that we are hardwired to suffer psychologically: to compare, evaluate, and criticize ourselves, to focus on what we’re lacking, to rapidly become dissatisfied with what we have, and to imagine all sorts of frightening scenarios, most of which will never happen. No wonder humans find it hard to be happy!”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

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“Myth 2: If You’re Not Happy, You’re Defective”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

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“one in ten adults will attempt suicide, and one in five will suffer from depression.”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

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“The more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

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“I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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