This simple tale has profoundly shaped my perspective on success and happiness throughout my career.Picture this: an elderly ...

Ocean Vuong’s newest novel 'Emperor of Gladness' reminds us that human connection is the greatest universal truth.

A study showed that daily "micro-acts" promote wellbeing and health. These include acts of kindness, self-reflection, ...

Psychology defines happiness as someone’s subjective well-being, combining positive emotions with a sense of meaning in one’s ...

Joy, along with achievement and meaningfulness, is one of the three keys to a satisfying life. Yet it’s the missing piece for ...

The English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whom Gruber quotes, said, “Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the ...

Positive psychology is the evidence-based study of happiness and, despite the common perception, it is not new; its roots go back to the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle and Epicurus.

Epicurus agrees with Aristotle that happiness is an end-in-itself and the ... ‘add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.’ 1. The art of living well and the art of dying well ...

In his Letter to Herodotus, Epicurus promises to provide a study of natural science which leads people to understand how to reduce fear and therefore pain, thereby securing a life of happiness (which ...

It is this commitment that often leads people to wrongly think of Epicurus as a kind of glutton, who thought that lavish dinners with expensive wines might somehow constitute the key to happiness.

The Art of Happiness has been awarded the 2023 Innovation Award by the Virginia Association of Museums and it is getting ready to enroll its next session. The program will meet the first and ...