Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

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 attainment.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

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.

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.