Tag: The psychology of happiness

‘If you continue to exhume and ruminate over others’ misdeeds toward you, you will fester with hatred and resentment and you cannot be happy. To be happy, you have to wish other people well and truly mean it.‘- Will Bowen

‘You can smile, speak affirmatively, engage in kind acts, and more, but if you are holding hatred toward another human being, your structure is built upon rotten foundation. It will come crashing down at some point.’- Will Bowen

‘Happy people tend to be kind. Unkind people tend to be unhappy.’- Will Bowen

‘People who hurt you are themselves hurting.’- Will Bowen

‘Changing your thoughts, words, and actions can increase your happiness level, but over time you will settle back to your typical happiness level if you don’t develop new happiness habits.’- Will Bowen

‘When you think you are happy, you are happy.’– Will Bowen

‘When you separate your thoughts from your ego, you liberate yourself to be happy.’- Will Bowen

‘When you take control of your thinking, you can choose to think happy thoughts.’- Will Bowen

‘Happiness and unhappiness are not only mental states, they are also mental evaluations.’- Will Bowen

‘When you accept that you will always have challenges and that they exist to keep you actively engaged and growing, you have found the first step to sustainable higher levels of happiness.’- Will Bowen

‘To become as happy as you resolve to be requires shifting your thoughts about other people and their antics.’- Bill Bowen

‘To choose happy thoughts, you must develop your power to silence the ego and select what you will think.’- Bill Bowen

‘Fear negates happiness.’- Bill Bowen

‘Make it your resolution to be happy first and you will find that other things you desire come to you moree easily as a natural result of your increased sense of well-being.’- Will Bowen

‘To be happier, you need to get an image in your mind of how your life will be when you consistently average a higher happiness set point.’- Will Bowen