"Happy moods, no matter the source, lead people to be more productive, more likable, more active, more healthy, more friendly, more helpful, more resilient, and more creative. This means that positive emotions actually help us achieve our goals (reinforcing the feeling that we are working toward something important) as well as help us strive for meaning and purpose in life."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Having goals in and of themselves is strongly associated with happiness and life satisfaction."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

“Happiness leads to success in nearly every domain of our lives, including marriage, health, friendship, community involvement, creativity, and in particular, our jobs, careers, and businesses. Data abounds showing that happy workers have higher levels of productivity, produce higher sales, perform better in leadership positions, and receive higher performance ratings and higher pay.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"Finally, surveys show, and large-scale randomized interventions confirm, that exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak."

— Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one's goals."

— Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

“Helping oneself and helping others are inextricably intertwined: the more we help others, the happier we become, and the happier we become, the more inclined we are to help others.”

- Tal-Ben Shahar, Happier

"All else being equal, happy people have better relationships, are more likely to thrive at work, and also live better and longer. Happiness is a worthwhile pursuit, whether as an end in itself or as a means toward other ends."

— Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"As the Buddha said, "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Unlike material possessions, which are usually finite, happiness is infinite."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"An ingenious series of experiments conducted a number of years ago showed that when people mimicked the facial expressions associated with happiness, they felt happier—even when they did not know they were moving “happy muscles” in their face. Researchers have found that smiling itself produces feelings of happiness."

- Robert Emmons, Thanks!

"Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction."

- Caroline Adams Miller, Creating Your Best Life

"A happy - or happier - life is rarely shaped by some extraordinary life-changing event; rather, it is shaped incrementally, experience by experience, moment by moment. The more our days are filled with these experiences, the happier we become. This is all there is to it."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

- Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Act as if you were confident, optimistic, and outgoing. You’ll manage adversity, rise to the occasion, create instant connections, make friends and influence people, and become a happier person."

- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

“Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.”

- Robin Sharma

"Connection is a cornerstone of happiness."

- Martin Seligman

"A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening ‘outside,’ just by changing the contents of consciousness."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"I began to view attention as the most important ingredient we can add if we’re to become more productive, creative, and happy—at work and at home."

— Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus

"...happiness should not be looked at just as a destination we try to reach, but as a beneficial way we learn to travel."

— Ed Diener & Robert Biswas-Diener, Happiness