Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.