Some Quotes from The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Shakespeare

“Our life is the creation of our mind.”
Buddha

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun.”
Clifford Geertz

“We’ve all heard that what does not kill us makes us stronger, but that is a dangerous oversimplification. Many of the things that don’t kill you can damage you for life.”
Jonathan Haidt

“There is no reality, only perception.”
Dr. Phil McGraw

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton

“Human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse.”
Robert Wright

“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
Benjamin Franklin