Quotes About Happiness

When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn't know you were having them.

The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts. Notice

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness—he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him. I

The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in—and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought … why am I doing this? This is … boring? This isn't bringing me any kind of happiness. It took a declutter for me to notice that these technologies aren't actually adding anything to my life.

The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.

Why do some people enjoy their work while so many other people don't? Here's the CliffsNotes summary of the social science research in this area: There are many complex reasons for workplace satisfaction, but the reductive notion of matching your job to a pre-existing passion is not among them.

eudaimonia (a state in which you're achieving your full human potential),

Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement and sense of fulfillment

In Wrzesniewski's research, the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do.

This message is not as inspiring as "follow your passion and you'll immediately be happy," but it certainly has a ring of truth. In other words, working right trumps finding the right work.

Thomas had followed his passion to the Zen Mountain Monastery, believing, as many do, that the key to happiness is identifying your true calling and then chasing after it with all the courage you can muster. But as Thomas experienced that late Sunday afternoon in the oak forest, this belief is frighteningly naïve.

The more we focused on loving what we do, the less we ended up loving it.

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When you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don't like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life? One solution to this despair, he notes, is to follow Aristotle's lead and embrace pursuits that provide you a "source of inward joy.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

Laughter is the genuine form of applause.

I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

So I chose one, and Harry kept the other... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this. We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath.

Deal. The pee nappies are yours.' Then she added, 'Your father can take care of the shitty ones.' Their laughter echoed through the deserted harbour. Anna would always remember that moment as one of the best in her life. That moment when the ice thawed.

es hora de seguir adelante, de dejar de lamentarse por lo que podría haber tenido y alegrarme de lo que de hecho tengo.

It warmed Erica's heart

I wasted so much time and happiness by worrying, while you were always glad and grateful for what we had, and for Matte. It's impossible to prepare for something like this happening. I've spent my whole life worrying about everything between heaven and earth, but I was never able to prepare myself for this. I should have been happier.