Sonja Lyubomirsky Quotes

#1. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13

Shawn Achor

#2. [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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#3. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#6. happiness, more than anything, is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#8. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#9. Risk more than others think safe.

Howard Schultz

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#11. Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

#12. Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

Amy Ephron

#13. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

#14. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#16. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#17. The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#18. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#19. Pray for strength to preserve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#21. I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

Ingmar Bergman

#22. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#23. 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.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#24. It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#25. It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

H. Jon Benjamin

#26. All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#27. If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#28. People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#29. I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn't, because I couldn't trust myself.

Stephanie Perkins

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

Sonja Lyubomirsky