Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.
Oh God. ” said Magnus, “they’re dead. They’re all dead!
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.