“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”

—  Daniel Kahneman, book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Variant: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 38, "Thinking about life", page 402 (ISBN 9780141033570).

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