Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
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