After 40, happiness stops being about chasing more and starts coming down to a few simple, intentional choices. These six ...

True happiness doesn't come from controlling everything around you — it comes from mastering what you give your energy to.

We used to have a very different understanding of what it means to live well. Credit...By Joanne Joo Supported by By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah is The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist ...

This research update from the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard discusses the role of happiness and life satisfaction in human life, its effects on other aspects of flourishing, and what it is that ...

We are now at the beginning of the year 2026. If we reflect on the wishes we extended to others and those we received in ...

Have you ever looked at someone who seems to radiate joy and wondered, "Are they just lucky?" It's easy to assume that people who seem to have had easier lives—stable families, good education, ...

The increasingly materialistic society we live in has led many of us to believe that happiness is something to be chased, to obtain. The ultimate end goal that leads to everlasting bliss and ...

Victor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent much of World War II in concentration camps, where he lost most of his family to illness and murder. Yet, somehow, he kept his humanity and later ...

The experience of work has been turned upside down in the last few years. And if you're like most people, you're giving more thought to when, where and how you work—as well as why. The global dialogue ...

Sometimes, ideas become accepted knowledge even though they are not based in fact. Prime examples are that the only human-made object that can be seen from space is the Great Wall of China, that ...

At a time when happiness is often equated with comfort, stability, or financial security, Happiness Happens offers an honest, ...