Thursday, 31 August 2017

Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar




All quotes from Tal’s book

Society rewards results, not processes; arrivals, not journeys.


One way of becoming happier, increasing the base level of our well-being, is to reduce the have-tos while increasing the want-tos.


The potential for happiness may be all around us, but if it goes unnoticed -- if our focus is elsewhere and we fail to perceive it -- we risk losing it.


To turn a possibility into a reality, we first need to realize that the possibility exists.


To raise our levels of well-being, there is no way around simplifying our lives.


To realize, to make real, life's potential for the ultimate currency, we must first accept that "this is it" -- that all there is to life is the day-to-day, the ordinary, the details of the mosaic.