Happiness & Positive Psychology

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01

Susan Cain · 2022

Bittersweet

The ache is not a defect. It is proof that something you love is calling you toward depth.

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Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey · 2023

Build the Life You Want

The life you want is built by practicing love where your emotions are asking for attention.

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Ali Abdaal · 2023

Feel-Good Productivity

The best productivity system is not the one that makes you feel like a machine. It is the one that gives your best work a better emotional climate.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990

Flow

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

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Martin E. P. Seligman · 1990

Learned Optimism

Optimism is not pretending the weather is fine. It is learning which storms are local, temporary, and survivable enough to keep walking.

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Eric Jorgenson · 2020

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.

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Oliver Burkeman · 2012

The Antidote

The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

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Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 1998

The Art of Happiness

Happiness is not found by escaping suffering. It is trained by meeting life with a mind that keeps choosing warmth.

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Charlie Mackesy · 2019

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

What do you want to be when you grow up? Kind.

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Matt Haig · 2021

The Comfort Book

It is okay to be a work in progress and a miracle at the same time.

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Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz · 2023

The Good Life

The good life is not a destination. It is the repeated practice of turning toward the people who make life worth living.

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Gretchen Rubin · 2009

The Happiness Project

The days are long, but the years are short.

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Meik Wiking · 2016

The Little Book of Hygge

Hygge is the art of making ordinary time feel safe, warm, and worth sharing.

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Benjamin Hoff · 1982

The Tao of Pooh

The way opens when you stop trying to outsmart the forest and begin moving with your own nature.

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Mitch Albom · 1997

Tuesdays with Morrie

Love each other or perish.

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Mark Manson · 2019

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Hope becomes useful when it stops pretending pain is optional.

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Richard Carlson · 1997

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff

A peaceful life is built by refusing to promote every irritation.

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Dalai Lama XIV · 2016

The Book of Joy

Joy grows when attention widens beyond the self.

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Daniel Todd Gilbert · 2006

Stumbling on Happiness

Future-you is a stranger; ask better questions before promising them paradise.

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Oprah Winfrey · 2014

What I Know for Sure

What you know for sure becomes a lantern when the rest of the path is undecided.

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Martin E.P. Seligman · 2002

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

Happiness deepens when strengths are used in service of something real.

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Jack Canfield · 1993

Chicken Soup for the Soul

A remembered kindness can become practical hope.

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Arthur C. Brooks · 2022

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The second curve begins when success stops being the scoreboard and becomes something you can give away.

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Gretchen Rubin · 2012

Happier at Home

Home changes when small experiments make love easier to practice.

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Neil Pasricha · 2016

The Happiness Equation

The equation improves when you want less, act sooner, and compare quieter.

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Sonja Lyubomirsky · 2007

The How of Happiness

Happiness grows where practice fits the person and stays alive through variety.

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Rhonda Byrne · 2012

The Magic

Gratitude changes the scan pattern of the mind.

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Chip Heath · 2017

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

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