How Happiness Happens Quotes

“The motto on the front door says “Happiness happens when you get.” The sign on the lesser-used back door counters “Happiness happens when you give.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Happiness is less an emotion and more a decision, a decision to bear with one another.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Pray for people. Serve more. Practice patience. And, bring the best out in people.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Happiness is found by giving it away.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“1.​Encourage one another (1 Thess. 5:11). 2.​Bear with one another (Eph. 4:2). 3.​Regard one another as more important (Phil. 2:4). 4.​Greet one another (Rom. 16:16). 5.​Pray for one another (James 5:16). 6.​Serve one another (Gal. 5:13). 7.​Accept one another (Rom. 15:7). 8.​Admonish one another (Col. 3:16). 9.​Forgive one another (Eph. 4:32). 10.​Love one another (1 John 3:11).”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Do this for someone. Ask someone to tell you his—or her—story. Resist the urge to interrupt or correct. Turn off the television. Log off from the internet. Close your laptop; silence your cell phone. Give the rarest of gifts: your full attention.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Happiness happens when you give.” Doing good does good for the doer.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.”6 A little boy said these words to his father: “Dad, let’s play darts.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Happy are the unentitled! Expecting the applause of others is a fool’s enterprise! Do yourself a favor and assume nothing. If you go unnoticed, you won’t be surprised. If you are noticed, you can celebrate.”
― Max Lucado, How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations

“Quiero hacer bien y no saber que lo hice.”
― Max Lucado, El secreto de la felicidad: Gozo duradero en un mundo de comparaciones, decepciones y expectativas insatisfechas