We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

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.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.