“We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common which is – we all want to be happy.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or star…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new jour…”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“I guess what I'm trying to say is, there are a lot of self righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them - by the way you dress, your sexuality, or the ass faces you like to make - you are just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self righteous kooks…”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“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.com
“Imagination cannot easily transcend the boundaries of the present, and one reason for this is that it must borrow machinery that is owned by perception. The fact that these two processes must run on the same platform means that we are sometimes confused about which one is running. We assume that wha…”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be…”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“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.com
“Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not…”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and for others.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“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.com
“Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelli…”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com