It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.