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“Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present oriented.”
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“In life, the path of least resistance is always silence. If you don’t express your feelings and thoughts to others, you don’t have to deal with their reactions to it. You don’t have to feel vulnerable. You don’t risk rejection. But I’ll tell you what: the path of least resistance leads exactly where that ride leads to.” He pointed again to the carts looping around the track. “Nowhere.”
― Life's Golden Ticket: A Story about Second Chances
― Life's Golden Ticket: A Story about Second Chances
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“Perhaps the most accurate term for happiness, then, is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to “happiness” but to “human flourishing.”
― The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
― The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“We found that the happiest people take pleasure in other people’s successes and show concern in the face of others’ failures. A completely different portrait, however, has emerged of a typical unhappy person—namely, as someone who is deflated rather than delighted about his peers’ accomplishments and triumphs and who is relieved rather than sympathetic in the face of his peers’ failures and undoings.”
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
― The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Altán’s 2024 Year in Books
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