Happiness for Beginners
Katherine Center
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.”
“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy... Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does; Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”
“It's my battle cry: Appreciate Everything!”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”
“I just wanted to be good at this. And competent. And tough. And, ultimately, just: anybody but me. I was tired of being a disaster. I was tired of being a trampled-on flower. I wanted to be awesome. That wasn't too much, was it?”
“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.”
“I guess who you are always seems normal to you because you don’t know what it feels like to be anyone else.”
“I don’t think trying to be happy means you can never be sad,” I said. “Right?”
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Book Keywords:
memories, life-lesson, happiness, life, perspective, memory
