Quotes by Happiness

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.