Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Stop beating yourself up over the past.

How we feel about our families teaches us and helps us know the importance of feeling.

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

People tend to think they know you when u come into their tv's every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything u here.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?

Would you rather be deaf or blind?