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Top 20 Tal Ben-Shahar Quotes (2025 Update)

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.”

1. “Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

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Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.”

2. “Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein.”

3. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –.”

4. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. –.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Choice is creation. To choose is to create. Through my choices I create my reality. At every moment in my life I have a choice. Moments add up to a lifetime; choices add up to a life. What kind of life do I want for myself? What choices will create this kind of life?”

5. “Choice is creation. To choose is to create. Through my choices I create my reality. At every moment in my life I have a choice. Moments add up to a lifetime; choices add up to a life. What kind of life do I want for myself? What choices will create this kind of life?”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.”

6. “Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn.”

7. “The choice is a simple one: Learn to fail, or fail to learn.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The pain associated with the fear of failure is often stronger than the pain of the failure itself.”

8. “The pain associated with the fear of failure is often stronger than the pain of the failure itself.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth” and so it goes away. – Robert M. Pirsig.”

9. “The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth” and so it goes away. – Robert M. Pirsig.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. – George Eliot.”

10. “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. – George Eliot.”

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Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one’s goals. –.”

11. “Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one’s goals. –.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Happy people live secure in the knowledge that the activities that bring them enjoyment in the present will also lead to a fulfilling future.”

12. “Happy people live secure in the knowledge that the activities that bring them enjoyment in the present will also lead to a fulfilling future.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. – Albert Einstein.”

13. “The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. – Albert Einstein.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

14. “Leonardo da Vinci pointed out that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair.”

15. “When we fail to attain a desired outcome, we often extrapolate from that experience the belief that we have no control over our lives or over certain parts of it. Such thinking leads to despair.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Such attachment to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as “learned helplessness.”

16. “Such attachment to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as “learned helplessness.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “The all-or-nothing mind-set leads Perfectionists to transform every setback they encounter into a catastrophe, an assault on their very worth as human beings. Their sense of self inevitably suffers as their faultfinding turns inward.”

17. “The all-or-nothing mind-set leads Perfectionists to transform every setback they encounter into a catastrophe, an assault on their very worth as human beings. Their sense of self inevitably suffers as their faultfinding turns inward.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “In Aristotle’s words, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

18. “In Aristotle’s words, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.”

19. “Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “All of us, regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in, can make a conscious effort to search for possibilities around and within ourselves.”

20. “All of us, regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in, can make a conscious effort to search for possibilities around and within ourselves.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Tal Ben-Shahar Quote: “When the question is “Why do you want to be happy?” the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is “Because it will make me happy,” nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.”

22. “When the question is “Why do you want to be happy?” the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is “Because it will make me happy,” nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

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