Daniel Kahneman Quotes

My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I get frustrated but never depressed.

We all go through different mood changes. I'm just a person; I've got all those emotions going like everybody else, and sometimes it gets the better of you.

If you're feeling really sad, there is only one reason: it's because you're deleting all the reasons you could be feeling good. And if you're feeling good, it's because you're deleting all the bad things you could be focusing on.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.