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.

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.

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

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.

This time will never come again in your life. Enjoy every moment, right now, before the time is gone.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.