Ben Shahar Quotes

#1. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#2. The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#4. We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. We're all products of our past," Devon said. "What we choose to do with it is our decision, no one else's. You can choose to be damaged, fragile. Or you can choose to be more than the broken elements of your psyche. Fire tempers steel. Pain tempers character.

Tiffany Snow

#6. Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Tal Ben-Shahar

#7. A joke's a joke; you can either take it, or you can't.

Brian Dunkleman

#8. Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#9. We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#10. Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#11. Incremental change is better than ambitious failure ... Success feeds on itself.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#12. It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Learn to fail or fail to learn

Tal Ben-Shahar

#14. I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Christopher Lee

#15. There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

Tal Ben-Shahar