Lower Your Cortisol Level. The Happiest People

Variety Improves The Things That We Do Too Often, But It Rules The Things That We Don't Do Often Enough.

People Want To Be Happy, And All The Other Things They Want Are Typically Meant To Be A Means To That End.

I Think Good Things Are Happening To Me And Will Continue. I Am Not Optimistic About The Rest Of The Species, But I'm So Blessed, It's Almost Scary. I'm Sorry To Disappoint You, But I Have A Wildly Sunny Disposition. I Love To Laugh.

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

The Truth Is, Bad Things Don't Affect Us As Profoundly As We Expect Them To. That's True Of Good Things, Too. We Adapt Very Quickly To Either.