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Positive psychologists have found that practicing happiness strategies makes people more productive at work, leads to a better home life, and creates an upward spiral with one positive experience enriching the next. People can learn to flourish in this way when they're taught to use...

24 August, 2009

_ã–The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live_ã.  Bertrand Russell...

24 August, 2009

It's a beautiful, but imperfect worldWe live in incredible times in an incredible world.  There's so much for which we can and should be grateful but that doesn't mean we should look at the world, or expect others to be perfect, all the time.  This...

24 August, 2009

Just today, I stumbled across this quote from a manifesto against nuclear weapons written back in the 1960's by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell...

23 August, 2009

Money can improve your life, but not in the ways you think Can money buy happiness? Since the invention of money, or nearly enough, people have been telling one another that it can_ã_t. Philosophers and gurus, holy books and self-help manuals have all warned of the...

23 August, 2009

Weekend Competition: Chronologies for Happiness This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to devise chronological prescriptions for contentment. One traditional formula ran thus: If you wish to be happy for a day, get well shaved;For a week, get invited to a wedding;For a month, buy a good nag;For half a...

22 August, 2009