Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.
...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 more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
- 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
If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. - Sonja Lyubomirsky
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery. - Sonja Lyubomirsky
It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities. - Sonja Lyubomirsky
Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.
Find a happy person, and you will find a project. - Sonja Lyubomirsky
Find a happy person, and you will find a project.
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