But the two most valuable things you’ll learn—the words you should tape to your refrigerator or frame and hang on the wall someplace where you’ll see them five or ten times a day—are these: “Your emotions are signals to your conscious brain that something is going on that requires your attention and action—that’s all they are. Your conscious brain,

The macronutrients of happiness are enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose.

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, or PANAS.

happier is not a state of being, but a state of doing—not a thing you wait around and hope for, but an achievable change you actively work toward.

When someone says, “You are wrong,” respond with “Tell me more.”

Enjoyment takes an urge for pleasure and adds two important things: communion and consciousness.

Despite that, she always saw her childhood as a happy one, because her parents loved her and loved each other,

Happiness is a combination of enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose. To get happier is to get more of these elements, in a balanced way—not all of one and none of another. But if you were reading closely, you noticed one funny thing about all three: they all have some unhappiness within them. Enjoyment takes work and forgoing pleasures; satisfaction

Researchers have shown that asking people to think of happy things from their past can improve their mood.