Jim McKelvey Quotes

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Most people think that you need to be healthy in order to happy.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

Happy people are rarely interesting.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

I am very positive. I like to box. I like my life. I am happy every day.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.