It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth o…

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new unders…

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its atta…

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

- Sonja Lyubomirsky