People have their own various interesting takes on happiness. Don Marquis was reported to have said, “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” Schweitzer said, “Happiness? That is no...
Bertrand Russell once said, "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I become certain that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk to my gardener, I'm convinced of exac...
A University of Southern California study found that greater wealth didn't translate into greater happiness. The survey monitored the lives of approximately 1,500 people over the course of thirty y...
Don't worry; be happy. It's good for your heart health....
In a recent Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson says, "Bad choices in all of the major areas of our lives - education, career, marriage, and more - can be traced back to mistaken beliefs about what wi...
Where is Happiness? Not in money - Jay Gould, the American millionaire, had an enormous fortune. When dying, he said, "I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth." Not in pleasure - Lord Byron li...
Economist Richard Layard believes that although people are getting wealthier and living more comfortably, they’re not getting happier. He argues in Happiness: Lessons from a New Science that a “zero-s...
Happiness is...running? OK, perhaps it has more to do with diet, exercise and gr-attitude...
Under Construction Most of us have experienced what happens to motorists when one of those huge graders goes to work on a highway repair job. When the machine is operating on a busy road, traffic is h...
In a recent Dennis the Menace comic panel, Dennis is depicted at a picnic table with his parents. The table contains a picnic basket, a plate of fried chicken, cold drinks, a gelatin salad and the ...
I’m sure we all continue to miss Charles Schulz and the wonderful messages he taught through his characters in Peanuts. There is an old Peanuts strip that shows Charlie Brown and Schroeder walking an...
People who live their lives without God are found to be less joyful than those who are churched and abiding in Him....
From time to time we read stories that prove to us that money doesn’t buy happiness. Recently, newspapers carried the story of Mack Metcalf and Virginia Metcalf Merida who won 65.4 million do...
In a recent Breakpoint commentary, Mark Earley writes: "Dale Kuehne is the author of a new book, Sex and the iWorld. He says the traditional world, or tWorld, as he calls it, has been largely supplant...
There is a distinct and spiritual difference in happiness and joy, as well as how each is pursued....
Helen Keller once said, "With the death of every friend I love…a part of me has been buried…but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain m...
In his best-selling book Authentic Happiness, Dr. Martin Seligman discusses the things that actually make us happier....
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away all of his $4.7-million fortune. He said, “My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing. Money is counter productive—it prevents happiness to co...
Christian psychiatrists Drs. Frank B. Minirth and Paul D. Meier insist that any patient of theirs who is a Christian must be honest and use language that expresses the reality of the situation. In ...