Craig Ferguson Quotes

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

For me, the small joys of life make me happy.

Mental health really is a search to be happy, I think that's what people want in life - and if you're happy you're winning.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.