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 ...

No life worth living should meet the standard set by Epicurean or utilitarian views of happiness, and so its modern adherents are destined to be disillusioned by the blemishes of human life.

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 ...

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 ...

Another is to stop blocking happiness from taking root in your life. As you put the principles into practice, you can help others become happier, too. Read an excerpt of the book below and head to ...

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 ...

People continually ask themselves and each other, “Are you happy?” Many would say that a major goal of life is to be happy. But tracking levels of happiness poses a dilemma for me.