You can spin you’re wheels day in and day out complaining about what you don’t have, or you can spend the same hours in the same days grateful for what you do have.

An ancient rendition of, “This too shall pass.” Trials endure for a time, then end and slowly fade into the fog of memory. The snow of winter, of cold, of disappointment and pain lasts only for a season.

“There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some Read More.

Here’s the thing: If you can use the pain to do good, to save someone from having to experience the same pain, then the pain is graced, if you will, with something noble. The ugliness behind the pain isn’t meaningful, but the pain will have led to something that is deeply and even profoundly meaningful.

Through gasps of tear-filled pain, of an intensity that was heart-breaking, she told me how wonderfully things were going … externally. As she cried, she told me about the turmoil she feels at missing a family that doesn’t deserve to be missed and about external circumstances that really were pretty wonderful, all the while feeling utterly sad and empty

Religion offers a powerful context for the development of traits that help produce happiness in Read More.

The data is out, but the controversy rages on. A sociologist from the University of Read More.

Growing up with negative pessimists will likely leave an emotional and attitudinal imprint of negativity and pessimism. Growing up around praise and positive attitudes of optimism

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every Read More.

People who reflexively look at life and see hope and opportunity and beauty and noble Read More.

Life is experienced differently – even radically differently – by those who generally see the Read More.

Pursuing fun requires nothing of the person who pursues it. But happiness requires personal growth and maturity and the exercise of spiritual, moral, emotional, and mental muscles. The pursuit of happiness causes us to change, to transform

To many in the modern world, life takes on characteristics of a race. And so Read More.

Happiness in many ways can be seen as a sort of barometer of the human Read More.

You were meant to be happy. Wait. That needs to be repeated: YOU were MEANT Read More.

Life is filled with opportunities to make a difference and leave the world better, to Read More.

Many of you live lives of despair. Some of you simply feel a sense of Read More.

There are two words that have the potential of revolutionizing your life. They can immeasurably Read More.

Do you want more happiness? Has the joy of life fallen flat? Do you find Read More.

Lessons on happiness can be taught by the very young and the very old alike. Read More.