Rediscover happiness and motivate yourself with this powerful motivational speech. Join Aaron and Jason, our exceptional original speakers, as they guide you through a journey of personal recovery and ...

That's the ironic promise of a smartphone app called WeCroak, which pings your phone five times a day, every day, reminding you that you're going to die. Its creators say the app (which was inspired ...

Happiness isn't always easy to pin down, but these happy quotes can help you cultivate a greater sense of ease. There's no magic trick to finding happiness, nor is there a single path that leads there ...

Kindness and niceness, though both excellent personal qualities, are not the same thing. The former is to be good to others; the latter is about being pleasant. They don’t even have to go together.

With that in mind, the New York Times worked with the leader of the Harvard study to create a 7-Day Happiness Challenge as a way to start the new year. The whole challenge is well worth doing. These ...

Makes sense, except it doesn’t. Where major personal decisions are concerned, most people are terrible at predicting what will make them happy, if only because there’s no way to really know whether ...

Do you like yourself as you are? Think about it. It seems to me that we know so little about ourselves. What makes us tick? What are our habits? Who do we “hang out” with? What do we do in our spare ...

Sex is a godsend when you’re sad or anxious. It may be the last thing on your mind–the last thing you think you want to do–but it will lift your spirits better than a banana split. And the added ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Kindness and niceness, though both excellent personal qualities, are not the same thing. The ...

The happiness of American women was called into question recently by a study titled "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness." Societal advances, the authors suggest, have not made women happier. I ...