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The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

I love attention.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.