“Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be a sad person. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.comTagged: Happy, Happiness, Interest, Sadness, fascination
“Happy people are not people who 'feel good' all the time; they are the people who are able to be guided by their negative emotions rather than paralyzed by them.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Acceptance, Emotional Intelligence
“At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life.”— Jillian Michaels, amazon.comTagged: Life, Resposibility, Growth, Happiness
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: The future, Happiness, Predicting The Future, Change, Being Open
“A good life is not measured by what you do, it's about who you are. Not how many people you loved, but how much. It has nothing to do with how well things turn out or how seamlessly the plan is followed. It's about the bits of magic you stumble upon when you dive off path.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Magic, Happiness, A Good Life, Love
“You cannot save up your happiness; you can either feel it in the moment or you miss it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy
“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day mak…”— Ann Brashares, amazon.comTagged: Waiting, Happiness, Unhappiness, Delayed Gratification
“Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Loss, Losing Happiness, Taking A Chance
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”— Brené Brown, amazon.comTagged: Joy, Extraordinary, Goals, Life, Happiness
“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Bored, Boredom, Relationships, Love
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.comTagged: Courage, emotions, vulnerability, Happiness, Joy
“It’s hard for me to explain this to you in a way that will make one hundo percent sense, but I’ll try. Until recently, maybe in the last year or so, I didn’t understand that life could be good. It wasn’t like I was against happiness. I just didn’t think it was an option for someone like me.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Happiness, Life
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Extrovert, Being Alive, Joy
“Happiness is something that we have to consciously choose; otherwise we'd create the reality that we subconsciously think we deserve.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Choice, Consciousness, Reality
“Happiness is only real when shared.”— Chris McCandless, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Relationships, Friendship
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Letting Go, Materialism, Attachment
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.caTagged: Joy, Life, Happiness, Living, Embracing Life
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Light, Darkness
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Happiness
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Science, Poetry, Poets
“There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Thriving, Joy
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Expectations, Happiness, Pain, Suffering, Heaven
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Boredom, Sin, Religion
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Life, Happiness, Destruction
“In fearing that happiness won't last forever, we lose it. In fearing that grief will last forever, we create it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Fear, Grief, Self-Sabotage
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Luck, Fortune, Fame
“The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.”— Daniel M. Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Predicting Happiness
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Being Right, Being Happy, Smart vs. Happy
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on t…”— Douglas Adams, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Materialism, Money, The Human Condition
“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.comTagged: Happiness, Contentment, Openness, Life