worldview and perspective on Happiness

We pray to You our Lord, our Savior, our Merciful God, that all our sins may be forgiven. Our sins are like a straight jacket, binding us, and keeping us from relationship with You. Although we know w...

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good l...

Charles Darwin, known for his theory of natural selection, noticed that his later life included a “loss of happiness.” While he never acknowledged that it might have been related to his changing world...

Considered perhaps the greatest guitarist alive, Christopher Parkening appeared to have it all. Signed to an international recording deal as a teenager, Parkening traveled across the world playing bea...

George MacDonald, The Scottish author who had a profound effect on C.S. Lewis among others, once wrote a letter to his father about what he believed would be a great obstacle to his faith; that once h...

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

[Contemporary Research suggests there is] little correlation between the circumstances of people’s lives and how happy they are.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Obviously there’s a lot of good things about societal and technological progress, and in a lot of ways our lives are much easier than, say, our grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ lives. But there’s ...

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the co...