If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
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… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged,… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
“D. A., and Kahneman, D. (1998). Does living in California make people happy?: A focusing illusion in judgments of life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 9: 340–46.” — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
“Approximately one-third of all homes in 1940 did not have running water, indoor toilets, or bathtub/showers, and more than half had no central heating.… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
