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The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Top 10 Best Quotes
“[Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.”
“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.”
“Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present oriented.”
“The face of happiness may be someone who is intensely curious and enthusiastic about learning; it may be someone who is engrossed in plans for his next five years; it may be someone who can distinguish between the things that matter and the things that don’t; it may be someone who looks forward each night to reading to her child. Some happy people may appear outwardly cheerful or transparently serene, and others are simply busy. In other words, we all have the potential to be happy, each in our own way.”
“happiness, more than anything, is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.”
“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 good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
“Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.”
“happiness level is entirely in your hands, that your “unhappy genes” do not doom you to unhappiness or, worse, to depression.”
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
“Sometimes when I’m facing a horrendous week or am upset over a perceived slight, I remind myself that I won’t remember it (much less care about it) one month, six months, or a year from now. (The more extreme version of this strategy is to use the deathbed criterion: Will it matter when you’re on your deathbed?)”
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Book Keywords:
happiness, gratitude, overthinking