Life’s happiness as a U-shaped curve
When you’re a child, you are happy, but you become less so during your teenage years. Then you get more and more miserable. But in your 40′s you bottom out. Then you keep getting happier. When you...
View ArticleHow to be happy?
Happiness is not all it’s cracked up to be. And happiness is not the test of faith or a sign of being right with God. Having said that, it’s interesting that the Mayo Clinic has completed a big study...
View ArticleThe happiest parents have four or more kids
An Australian family has found that the happiest parents are those with four or more children. From Leah Jessen, Study Finds Happiest Parents Have Four or More Kids, The Daily Signal: The happiest...
View ArticleWhether or not we kick the football
The Peanuts Movie currently in theaters is a critical and commercial hit, and it brings back to mind the genius of cartoonist Charles Schulz. I stumbled upon a great quotation from Schulz–a devout...
View ArticleHappiness vs. Freedom?
In a description of his new book, The Intolerable God, author Christopher J. Insole tells about a central struggle in the philosopher Immanuel Kant: the conflict between happiness and freedom. Now...
View ArticleThe older you get, the happier you are?
A study has found a linear relationship between old age and happiness. That is, the older you get, the happier you are. Despite the deterioration of the body and the whole array of health and mental...
View ArticleThe Different Meanings of “Happiness”
One of our inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence, is “the pursuit of happiness.” But what does that mean? Ken Myers shows that the concept of “happiness” has changed over...
View ArticleReligion Is For Those in Need
The 10 happiest countries one earth are among the least religious; conversely, the 10 least happy countries are among the most religious. Such information would seem to discredit religion, but it...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Scandinavians Are So Happy
For the fourth year in a row, Finland is ranked as the happiest country in the world. So why do Finns and other Scandinavians rate so happy when they are also notoriously gloomy? A Finnish immigrant...
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