I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with … - Sonja Lyubomirsky

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BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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.

Joy, Life Is Good, Meaningful, Positive, Refer, Worthwhile

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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.

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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, Hands, Today, Take, Happy

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Happen, Happiness, Joy, Powerful, Sum, Unhappy Person

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i. e. , seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Genetic, Happiness, Lying, Makeup, Seeking

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

Happiness, Reason

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BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

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