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.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.