Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.