Subjective Well-Being Quotes

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

No one has a right to happiness.

Happiness is a moving target.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

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

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Happiness is a privilege.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.