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What do scientists know about what makes us happy—and what doesn’t? This is research that can truly change your life for the better.

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How many basic emotions are there in a person?

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How many basic emotions are there in a person?

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How many basic emotions are there in a person?

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Answer (1 of 5): There is some pretty good evidence that all humans experience (or express) the same basic group of around 6 - 8 emotions. In response to the 'Anon' answer, I think that the term basic here is taken to mean that because they are experienced by everyone, they are a basic part of ...

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The Best 50 Quotes About Home | Shutterfly

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It's home sweet home. It's where your heart is. It's where you make it.

No matter what 'home' means to you, there is surely something nostalgic about the place we call home. It's the place where we eat, the place with friends and family, home decorations that help remind us of special memories and it's the place we make our own. Sometimes in life we could use a little reminder of how it feels to be home, to come home and to leave home.Whether your loved ones are leaving home, coming home or seem to be missing home, these home sweet home quotes will remind them of all the good things ( think unconditional love and mama's cooking.) Aside from just a sweet reminder, these inspirational sayings make the perfect addition for a going away party card or a welcome home card too.

Quotes about Home

Who knows if we can really put into words what it means to be home. We aren't even going to try to articulate the feelings , but instead have the experts put it into words for us. These quotes about home will make your heart warm just thinking about the place you grew up or the place you come home to every night.

"Home is where our story begins..."

"Home is the starting place of love, hope and dreams."

"The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back."

"Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends always belong, and laughter never ends."

"A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of hopes and dreams."

"Home is not a place...it's a feeling."

"With you, I am home."

"What I love most about my home is who I share it with."

"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to."

"There's no place like home."

"Where we love is home- home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"In this home... We do second chances. We do real. We do mistakes. We do I'm sorrys. We do loud really well. We do hugs. We do together best of all."

"May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends."

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."

"Bless out house as we come and go. Bless our home as the children grow. Bless our families as they gather in. Bless our home with love and friends."

"Home is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms."-William J. Bennett

"Home is where one starts from." -T.S. Eliot

Quotes About Coming Home

There is something oh so special about coming home. Something so special that people even write songs about it. It's a hard thing to put into words what it feels like to come home after a long time away, but these touching sayings do just that. You'll be ready to plan your next trip home in no time.

"The best journey takes you home."

" Life takes you unexpected places, love brings you home."

" Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again."

"Maybe the reason you can never go home again is that, once you're back, you can never leave..."

"It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what's changed is you."-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I left the light in my heart on in case you ever wanted to come back home."

"I believe wherever dreams dwell, the heart calls it home. So may you untangle yourself from the twist of melancholy and ley your thoughts carry you back to the birthplace of your truth." -Dodinsky

"I believe that all of our lives we're looking for home and if we're really lucky, we find it in someone's loving arms. I think that' what life is-coming home." -Anita Krizzan

"Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun." -Edie Falco

"I will be seeing you soon and it will be better than anything else."

"It's like coming home after a long trip. That's what love is like. It's like coming home."

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."-Chinese Proverb

"Coming home to friends with wagging tails and loving hearts makes everyday a good day!"

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

"The thrill of coming home has never changed. "

"No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home."-Laura Marney

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Quotes About Leaving Home

Leaving home can be a hard or an exciting time for just about anyone. Heck, leaving home can be hard and exciting all at the same time. For whatever the reason, be it saying goodbye to the house you grew up in or moving across the country, leaving home is a big step in this journey we call life. Share one of these leaving quotes with those walking out the door and it will surely put a smile on their face in such a bittersweet moment.

"When it's time for you to venture out, don't let fear have you looking back at what you're leaving behind."

"Feeling sad to leave doesn't mean you shouldn't go."

"Love is standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it is to leave and you can never let go without leaving your footprints."

"Everyone will end up leaving you at one point or another, but it's the ones who come back that are most important."

"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family."-Anita Baker

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"Family, like branches on a tree we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."

"We might be miles apart, but I'll always carry you in my heart."

"Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience- buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello-become new all over again."-Anthony Doerr

"The first step to living the life that you want is leaving the life that you don't want."

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

"Leave the past behind. You may not feel better about it, but it will be better for you."

"Never leave home without a kiss, a hug and an I love you."

"Don't leave home without your sword- your intellect."

"After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up."-Lemony Snicket

Four walls and a roof over your head isn't the only way we define the word 'home.' Home is more then just a shelter, it's where we love, it's where we feel, it's where we can be ourselves and it's where life happens. Share the feeling that home brings to you with the best quotes and inspirational sayings because there really is no place like home.

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It's home sweet home. It's where your heart is. It's where you make it. No matter what 'home' means to you, there is surely something nostalgic about the place we call home. It's the place where we eat, the place with friends and family, home decorations that help remind us of special memories and it's the place we make our own.

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Please take a moment to be grateful for this article you are about to read. I'll wait... Seriously though, it can have a profound impact on your life (the whole being grateful thing that is ... the effect of the article is less certain).

With the holidays coming up I wanted to focus on the one Turkey Day tradition that has the power to reshape your neural pathways. Sounds like an impressive feat, but it's true. No it's not the turkey increasing your serotonin ( myth busted!), nor the apple pie giving you a burst of dopamine. As my intro suggests, it's right there in the name. Thanks giving. Giving of thanks, also known as gratitude. Gratitude, particularly if practiced regularly, can keep you healthier and happier. In this article I'll share the results of four studies that show how gratitude can, among other things, help you exercise more, sleep better and be happier.

One study by a couple of American researchers assigned young adults to keep a daily journal of things they were grateful for (Emmons and McCullough, 2003). They assigned other groups to journal about things that annoyed them, or reasons why they were better off than others. The young adults assigned to keep gratitude journals showed greater increases in determination, attention, enthusiasm and energy compared to the other groups. While that shows a clear benefit of gratitude, it also makes a clear distinction. Realizing that other people are worse off than you is not gratitude. Gratitude requires an appreciation of the positive aspects of your situation. It is not a comparison. Sometimes noticing what other people don't have may help you see what you can be grateful for, but you have to take that next step. You actually have to show appreciation for what you have, for it to have an effect.

The effect of gratitude is not just limited to young adults who haven't yet been beaten down by the sad realities of life. In addition, even less frequent moments of gratitude can have an effect. The same researchers conducted a separate study on adults, which showed that even a weekly gratitude journal was beneficial. Subjects assigned to journal weekly on gratitude showed greater improvements in optimism. That makes sense. But that's not all; it also influenced their behaviors. Keeping a gratitude journal also caused greater improvements in exercise patterns. Lastly, it also caused a reduction in physical ailments, so these subjects had fewer aches and pains (tired of your carpal tunnel syndrome? Be grateful you don't have a headache).

A third study from earlier this year did not require a gratitude journal, but simply looked at the amount of gratitude people tended to show in their daily lives (Ng et al, 2012). In this study, a group of Chinese researchers looked at the combined effects of gratitude and sleep quality on symptoms of anxiety and depression. They found that higher levels of gratitude were associated with better sleep, and with lower anxiety and depression. This begged the question, is the level of gratitude improving these symptoms or is it the fact that the patients are getting better sleep? These researchers ran some analyses controlling for the amount of sleep and revealed some interesting links.

They found that after controlling for the amount of sleep people got, gratitude still had an effect on lower depression scores. This means that regardless of their levels of insomnia, people who showed more gratitude were less depressed. With anxiety they found a different result. After controlling for sleep, gratitude showed no effect on anxiety. So while higher gratitude led to less anxiety originally, this is simply because it helped people sleep better, and sleeping better improved their anxiety. So gratitude had a direct effect on depression symptoms (the more gratitude, the less depression) and an indirect effect on anxiety (increased gratitude led to improved sleep, which led to lower anxiety). Either way, with gratitude you're better off, and you get a good night's sleep.

The wide variety of effects that gratitude can have may seem surprising, but a direct look at the brain activity during gratitude yields some insight. The final study I'm going to share come from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH researchers examined blood flow in various brain regions while subjects summoned up feelings of gratitude (Zahn et al, 2009). They found that subjects who showed more gratitude overall had higher levels of activity in the hypothalamus. This is important because the hypothalamus controls a huge array of essential bodily functions, including eating, drinking and sleeping. It also has a huge influence on your metabolism and stress levels. From this evidence on brain activity it starts to become clear how improvements in gratitude could have such wide-ranging effects from increased exercise, and improved sleep to decreased depression and fewer aches and pains.

Furthermore, feelings of gratitude directly activated brain regions associated with the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopamine feels good to get, which is why it's generally considered the "reward" neurotransmitter. But dopamine is also almost important in initiating action. That means increases in dopamine make you more likely to do the thing you just did. It's the brain saying, "Oh, do that again."

Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous cycle. Your brain only has so much power to focus its attention. It cannot easily focus on both positive and negative stimuli. It is like a small child: easily distracted. Oh your tummy hurts? Here's a lollipop. So you lost your job? Isn't it wonderful we're having KFC for dinner? On top of that your brain loves to fall for the confirmation bias, that is it looks for things that prove what it already believes to be true. And the dopamine reinforces that as well. So once you start seeing things to be grateful for, your brain starts looking for more things to be grateful for. That's how the virtuous cycle gets created.

It's not always easy to remember to be grateful, particularly since the human brain is so adaptable. We easily get used to whatever comforts are around us. When was the last time you turned the key in your car's ignition and praised the miracles of the internal combustion engine? In disasters, like Hurricane Sandy for example, we can come to see that we shouldn't take things like running water and electricity for granted. But how long does that feeling last for? Within a few days you're back to cursing when the elevator takes 30 seconds to get to your floor.

Gratitude takes practice like any other skill. Thanksgiving Day is a good time to start, but if you want to reap all the benefits, keep practicing after that. Try thinking of one thing every day that you're grateful for. I'm practicing it too. While my wrists hurt and my eyes are strained from sitting at my computer too long, I am grateful for all the researchers who made this article possible. I am grateful for my Macbook Air for not weighing me down. And I am grateful to you for reading all the way to the end.

If you liked this article then check out my new book - The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time .

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Please take a moment to be grateful for this article you are about to read. I'll wait... Seriously though, it can have a profound impact on your life (the whole being grateful thing that is ... the effect of the article is less certain).