Janette Rallison Quotes

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

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

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.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

People who solve problems are happier.

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

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

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

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

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

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?

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

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.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.