Daniel M. Gilbert quote: "Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones."

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to tha...
DANIEL M. GILBERT

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in t...
DANIEL M. GILBERT

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing ...
DANIEL M. GILBERT

We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they ...
DANIEL M. GILBERT

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT

I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT

I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT

We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.
DANIEL GILBERT

People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is...
ROBERTA M. GILBERT

It takes two to have a fight.
ROBERTA M. GILBERT

. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong...
SANDRA M. GILBERT

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
DANIEL T. GILBERT

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was rig...
DANIEL M. GREENBERGER

As I have been walking door to door, at least 80 percent of the people would rather see a sales tax ...
DANIEL M. KOZUB

You're being paid by the people. It's your obligation and your duty to resolve the situation.
DANIEL M. KOZUB

I just think that something has to be done. I feel like I meet the criteria.
DANIEL M. KOZUB

I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M

-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will fin...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not...
WALTER GILBERT

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious bac...
WALTER GILBERT

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
WALTER GILBERT

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this ha...
WALTER GILBERT

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
WALTER GILBERT

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you c...
WALTER GILBERT

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve...
WALTER GILBERT

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our bio...
WALTER GILBERT

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formu...
WALTER GILBERT

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to mo...
WALTER GILBERT

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those th...
WALTER GILBERT

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes a...
WALTER GILBERT

The best project is one that asks a novel question.
WALTER GILBERT

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
WALTER GILBERT

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
WALTER GILBERT

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banq...
JACK GILBERT

I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realiz...
JACK GILBERT

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ...
JACK GILBERT

You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every ni...
JACK GILBERT

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew...
GILBERT HERNANDEZ

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are f...
GILBERT HIGHET

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER

I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hote...
BRAD GILBERT

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
DAN GILBERT

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful...
DAN GILBERT

We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is cons...
DAN GILBERT

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and p...
DAN GILBERT

The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff o...
DAN GILBERT

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
DAN GILBERT

Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did...
DAN GILBERT

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. Bu...
DAN GILBERT

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban a...
DAN GILBERT

A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not jus...
DAN GILBERT

StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better...
DAN GILBERT

From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committ...
DAN GILBERT

First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one ba...
DAN GILBERT

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimi...
DAN GILBERT

When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can ...
DAN GILBERT

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
DAN GILBERT

To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of t...
DAN GILBERT

It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That&...
DAN GILBERT

If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world aroun...
DAN GILBERT

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, ...
DAN GILBERT

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up...
DAN GILBERT

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
DAN GILBERT

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
DAN GILBERT

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
DAN GILBERT

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the...
GILBERT WHITE

I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from ...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have<...
JACK GILBERT

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
An...
JACK GILBERT

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experie...
GILBERT HIGHET

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
GILBERT SELDES

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
JACK GILBERT

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT

All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
GILBERT SELDES

We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic...
GILBERT GEORGE

Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd...
GILBERT MURRAY

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
GILBERT HARDING

We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching sta...
DAN GILBERT

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT

A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET

In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I alm...
DAN GILBERT

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Tomorrow is no man's gift.
GILBERT PARKER

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,...
GILBERT PARKER

I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY

Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series.
ANDREW GILBERT

He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.
ANDREW GILBERT

I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don&#...
BRANTLEY GILBERT

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.

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Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.

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