Tony Hsieh Quotes

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.