Studies show that people «feel» more pain from
losses than joy they feel from gains.
Not exact matches
There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the
joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more
than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a
loss.
For one thing, though it may enable the individual to achieve the heights of momentary ecstasy, it robs him in return of the ineffable
joys of union and conscious
loss of self in that which is greater
than self: the element burns up all its future in a flying spark.
For me, few memories are better at framing the double exposure of
joy and grief of parenting after
loss than that one of me weeping for my babies in heaven while giving my rainbow baby the milk of life.
More
than weight
loss, I have realised that it is more important to stay healthy although I am ecstatic with
joy over my progress.
Haneke's camera is scrupulously avoidant of anything remotely approaching exploitation or cruelty, but it doesn't flinch for a moment from the harsh physical and emotional realities of the dreadful situation, its confusion and
loss and humiliation; that kind of unremitting honesty, however — that kind of acknowledgment of the painful, irremediable fact of death — makes for the most stirring, principled, and meaningful illustration possible of the truest meaning of love, the kind that goes much deeper and wider, and endures longer,
than romance or
joy or even togetherness.
We know, like Hopkins, that age will alter her innocent responses, and that life holds more
than pure
joy, but rather that «sorrow's springs are the same,» that
loss is basic to the human experience.
Thatâ $ ™ s because humans are wired in such a way that the pain from
loss is more intense
than the
joy we get from gain.
The number one reason why investors aren't able to stick to an investing strategy through thick and thin is that psychologically speaking, the pain you feel from
losses are much more
than the
joy you feel from gains [6].