A well-stocked Netflix queue can go a long way toward pure and utter happiness, but sometimes there's still something missing. For those moments, it can help to fall back on the wisdom of history ...

As happiness in one area of life increases, it’ll often decline in another. A rosy past, a future brimming with potential This dilemma is further confounded by the way our brains process the ...

Some people see happiness as the feeling in a small moment — a chat between old friends, a warm meal. Some see it as deeply profound, a kind of enlightenment. Scientists tend to view it another ...

Most individuals don't follow the same psychological patterns when it comes to happiness. It is different for everyone.

Wonder embraces life’s beautiful, messy complexity in a way happiness doesn’t. It allows for nuance and depth. It allows for the reality of a simultaneously sucky and sublime existence.

Happiness – you know it when you see it, but it’s hard to define. You might call it a sense of well-being, of optimism or of meaningfulness in life, although those could also be treated as ...

There’s cause for optimism in the latest report on world happiness. Benevolence is about 25% higher than it was pre-pandemic and life evaluations from 2020 to 2022 have been “remarkably ...

Our weddings are meaningful because they represent a life-long commitment to love and to nourishing someone else through thick and thin, sickness and health, happiness and sadness. The time frame of ...

Lykke, by comparison, is Meik’s magnum opus, separating happiness into six categories, Togetherness, Money, Health, Freedom, Trust and Kindness, domains that came up as a result of his and his ...

Many see a period of time in their life, such as the day they got married or when they graduated from college, as their template for happiness. Advertisement “If I could just feel that way again ...

When it comes to happiness, though, Jung can seem a bit of a downer. “‘Happiness,’” he wrote, “is such a remarkable reality that there is nobody who does not long for it.” So far, so good.