Happier Hour Quotes

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. —Carl Sandburg”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“Henry Ford is said to have remarked, “Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit… the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason to exist.”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. —Jon Kabat-Zinn”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“All of it" needed to involve some exercise and a decent amount of sleep, because I'm not nice without either. "All of it" needed to factor in whether I'd still have enough energy to enjoy the moments I shared with Leo”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“people with too little time are significantly less happy and less satisfied in life.”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“#1: Treat Your Weekend Like a Vacation When was the last time you woke up in the morning without rushing out of bed to get ready for something? When did you last linger cuddling under the covers, or chatting over breakfast, or with a cup of coffee and the morning paper splayed out on the table in front of you?”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“It turns out that Americans are particularly bad at taking vacations. The United States is the only industrialized nation without vacation legally mandated.”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book The How of Happiness.”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“For younger people, extraordinary experiences produced greater happiness than ordinary ones. However, for older people, ordinary experiences produced as much happiness as extraordinary experiences.”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

“The extraordinary experiences tended to represent one of three buckets: life milestone—graduation, landing a great job, getting married, having a baby, having grandchildren once-in-a-lifetime vacation—climbing Machu Picchu, traveling to Paris, diving the Great Blue Hole in Belize cultural event—going to a concert, attending a professional sporting event, eating at a world-renowned restaurant”
― Cassie Holmes, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most