"Look at my new bike, Mom," said the young boy. Ralph had long wanted a new bike. He was so happy, he could scarcely contain his emotions. "Wow, life is wonderful, I'm so thrilled I could die," he ...

In the Kinsella household we do not tolerate sunshine or bandwagon sports fans. Once you pick your team, you support them for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, ’til ...

I want something better than happiness for you. Happiness will not last or even be guaranteed. I want you to have joy. The difference between joy and happiness has been on my mind lately. As my life ...

Happiness is a basic human emotion. It was categorized as such by famous emotion researcher and psychologist Paul Eckman, who identified the six emotions that are present in all cultures from birth.

There is a lot of talk about happiness. Books, media, and speakers focus on happiness. Many claim it is our fundamental right to be happy, though I’m not sure why they believe so. Happiness is a ...

Many people want to experience a sense of meaning as part of living a fulfilling life. But what brings us meaning, as opposed to just happiness? A new study aimed to help answer this question. In the ...

I came across a wonderful quote from the online newsletter, Elephant Journal: Around the same time, I reconnected with Kaia Roman. I quoted her in a previous article about mindfulness for kids at ...

Many speak of happiness and meaningfulness interchangeably, identifying happy lives with meaningful lives. However, as Thaddeus Metz of the University of Pretoria clarifies in his paper “Happiness and ...

On Monday I was honored to speak to the graduating students at Arizona State University. It was an intimidating occasion. ASU is the most innovative university in the world. Plus, there were 35,000 ...

In the Kinsella household we do not tolerate sunshine or bandwagon sports fans. Once you pick your team, you support them for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, ’til ...