People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

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.

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

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

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.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

I'd rather make music than tour.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.