"the happiness project" by gretchen rubin

"there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy"

"when a student is ready, the teacher appears"

"it is by studying the little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible"

"what you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while"

"there is no love, there are only proofs of love"; don't let the sun go down on your anger.

"happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor thing thing nor that, but simply growth. we are happy when we are growing"

"the chief happiness for a man is to be what he is"

"the days are long but the years are short"

"the absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you much strive to find sources of feeling good"

"the business of a wise man is to be happy"... whatever condition life happens to offer.

having strong social bonds is probably the most meaningful contributer to happiness.

people who give money to charity end up wealthier than those who don't. money is a good servant but a bad master.

"it is easy to be heavy; hard to be light"

"there are times in our lives, when we would of given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed"

"life doesn't get any better than this"

"i take care to appear happy and especially to be so"

if you don't believe you're happy - you're not. if you think you're happy - you are.

"the least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced"

periods of deprivation sharpen pleasures

only through recognizing your happiness can you really appreciate it.

outer order contributes to inner calm

"nothing can make our life or the lives of other more beautiful than perpetual kindness"

"a man may be young, handsome, wealthy and esteemed; if we wish to judge his happiness we ask whether he is cheerful"

loving actions inspire loving feelings