Quotes on Authentic Happiness

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

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

The best things in life aren't things.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.