Satisfaction is less a matter of getting what you want than getting what you have

:Myers and Diener in their paper on Who is Happy

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults”

:Thomas Sasz as quoted in the paper on Who is Happy by Myers and Diener

“That man is never happy for the present is so true”

: Boswell, 1776 as quoted in the article WHo is Happy by Myers and Diener.

“Just because someone is educated doesn’t mean that they are right.”

:Dr. James Gross in my Seminar on Emotion class @ Stanford in reference to a particular work on EI.

“We know Christians don’t have vaginas right?”

:Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues in her talk at Stanford