what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest..

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; l….

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well..

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing..

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop..

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans yo….

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door..

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. ….

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal ….

Where we are is vital to who we are..

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, econo….

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue..

We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the o….

Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and t….

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it..

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in….

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the plac….

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but….

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use..

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything..