Top 6 Quotes by Robert Biswas-Diener

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.

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

Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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

Opening Up, Choices, Needs

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

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

Life, Thinking, Want

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

Helping Others, Hard Times, Humanity

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

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

Anxiety, Choices, Risk

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