Is Happiness Really The Only Thing We

Human Beings Are Works In Progress That Mistakenly Think They’re Finished. The Person You Are Right Now Is As Transient, As Fleeting And As Temporary As All The People You’re Ever Been. The One Constant In Our Lives Is Change.

The Data Says That With The Poor, A Little Money Can Buy A Lot Of Happiness. If You're Rich, A Lot Of Money Can Buy You A Little More Happiness. But In Both Cases, Money Does It.

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage

Humans React To Danger When It Is Immediate, Immoral, Visible... Global Warming Does Not Press Any Of Those Buttons.

If Someone Offered You A Pill That Would Make You Permanently Happy, You Would Be Well Advised To Run Fast And Run Far. Emotion Is A Compass That Tells Us What To Do, And A Compass That Perpetually Stuck On North Is Worthless.