When we seek happiness, what exactly are we searching for? And when we wish happiness on someone else, what is it that we truly desire for them? Can happiness even be defined or is it an illusion, an ...

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Most Americans are familiar with these words, even if they don’t know that they are contained in the introduction to the Declaration of Independence, the ...

What's your definition of happiness? Research in the field of positive psychology often defines a happy person as someone who experiences frequent positive emotions, such as joy, interest, and pride, ...

What feels fulfilling at one stage of life may feel hollow at another. To make sense of these shifts, we need a framework that accounts for who we are, not just what we feel.

This idea may be difficult to define as it takes some thinking and evaluation of self. Our society seems to be so busy working, staying busy, rushing, setting goals, juggling all of the affairs of a ...

You want to be happy, right? Of course. Everyone does. But what if your idea of “happy” could use some tweaking? What if your “happiness paradigm” underwent ...

This year’s Sundance Film Festival introduced the audience to a fascinating new documentary titled Agent of Happiness. Directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, this project took a closer look at ...

There are several books on my shelves that have the word “meaning” in their title. One I've turned to on multiple occasions, Viktor Frankl’s well-known book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” because if ...

America loves to talk about happiness. The word is everywhere, as is the search for its meaning. Gurus take to stages across ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

They were making a bolder claim that became the foundation of the American Dream: that people could build meaningful lives if government protected liberty and then got out of the way. That idea still ...