Daniel Gilbert Quotes

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Happiness inspires productivity.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.