New Years Resolutions From "The Happiness Project" Author Gretchen Rubin The memoir, “The Happiness Project,” was published by Harper on Tuesday. As of this morning, it is the 35 th best-selling book on Amazon.com. ... Alice Munro's 'Too Much Happiness' scores a perfect 10 The title of the collection comes from the last and longest of the stories, "Too Much Happiness." It tells the story of a Russian mathematician named Sophia ... A Pessimistic Spin on the Power of Positive Thinking We subscribe to the belief that we have a right to not just pursue happiness, but to be happy. No matter how grim the last year has been, no matter how ... PBS decides to get 'Emotional' Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychology professor and author on the subject ("Stumbling on Happiness"), hosts the six-hour project that examines how relationships and other factors impact people's personal satisfaction. Katie Couric, Richard Gere, Chevy Chase, Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm'') and singer Alanis Morissette also participate. "If there is a human being in the world who prefers pain to pleasure, despair to delight or sorrow to joy, he or she is very good at hiding," Gilbert reasons, "because scientists have not yet located such a person. Everybody wants happiness. What distinguishes us from each other isn't what we're looking for in life, it's where we're looking f... Happiness is a warm quilt from Linus Project EVERETT — There's a lot going on at the home of Diane Campbell, where she and volunteers make quilts as the Snohomish County chapter of ... Study Finds New York Unhappiest State (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Happiness may not all come from the inside. A new study shows a strong correlation between quality of life by state and feelings of happiness. In the first large-scale analysis of happiness levels in the United States, researchers compared tables of self-reported life-satisfaction scores to tables of objective indicators of quality of life that included sunshine, hazardous waste sites, "greenness," violent crime and student-teacher ratio. When the two tables were compared, investigators found a very close correlation between people's self-reported satisfaction scores and the quality of life as estimated by objective indicators. "We wanted to stu...

Diet and Weight Loss Happiness? A lot of folks are talking about happiness these days, and new year's resolutions to lose weight, and I have a definite opinion, given we're about to turn a ...

Carter finds happiness in foreign missions This Oct. 7, 2009 photo shows former US President Jimmy Carter, center, along with his wife Rosalynn, talking to Juan Taveres at his home in the La Bomba ...