- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020