Robert Biswas-Diener quotes

“The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

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“Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

Source : Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.148, John Wiley & Sons

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“Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

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“Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

Source : Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons

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“Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

Source : Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.148, John Wiley & Sons

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“I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible”
-- Robert Biswas-Diener

Source : Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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“Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.”

“I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.”

“I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?”

“In my opinion, everybody has the same soul from God and we are united by that. Outside, our bodies are different, our faces are different, but inside we are all the same, we share the same feelings of sadness, love, pain My music comes out of these feelings. Whether it is Japanese music, African, Qawalli, or any other form of music, if it touches your heart it becomes important for me.”

“Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.”

“I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.”

“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy”

“What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.”

“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”

“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”