Here at The Happiness Institute (and especially HERE on Dr. Happy's Twitter feed) we love inspirational quotes and accordingly, we love this article from Mamiverse with 10 of Gandhi's great happiness quotes...
Happiness is focusing on the positives but it's also facing up to the cold hard realities...
by Ashley Wilhite from TinyBuddha “Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman I didn’t spend two years and $100,000 for a master’s degree in counseling...
There's much we can learn about life and happiness from the most unexpected sources. I recently discovered this little gem of a story as it flew, like many less notable examples, around cyberspace. Many of these "jokes" or stories are barely worth reading; this one...
I've always believed that life should be about more than just one thing. I'm not necessarily suggesting something like the concept of "balance", because balance to me sounds near impossible and potentially boring! But I am suggesting that, as the old saying goes, we need...
What have you learned that could bring you more happiness? In this morning's free eNewsletter I posted a great article from Leo Babuata (of Zen Habits fame) titled "38 Life Lessons I've learned in 38 Years". It begins like this...
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down _ãÄhappy._ã_ They told me I didn_ã_t understand...
It's not what you have but how you use it that brings happiness...
Knowledge gained from failure lasts longer While success is surely sweeter than failure, it seems failure is a far better teacher, and organizations that fail spectacularly often flourish more in the long run, according to a new study by Vinit Desai, assistant professor of management at...
People who are unhappy in life are unlikely to find satisfaction at work. This is the finding of a study published online April 1, 2010, in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Assistant Professor Nathan Bowling of Wright State University, USA, and colleagues Kevin Eschleman...
