happiness

32 posts

  1. The Antidote (review)
  2. Alain de Botton - By the Book - NYTimes.com
  3. Feeling-Making Machine: An Interview with Mary Karr - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Spring 2010
  4. Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books - WSJ.com
  5. Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what’s done is done
  6. Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content
  7. A willingness to hear unwelcome truths is the unhappy person’s best friend
  8. A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts
  9. “Have you tried suffering?”
  10. Are people who dwell on their problems more creative? - Barking up the wrong tree
  11. Don’t be dour about it
  12. Being cheerful is really no recipe to get down to work: nothing happens until…
  13. T.I
  14. We cannot bear toil or pleasure or ourselves or anything very long
  15. Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day…
  16. We erected one of the great cultural constructions of our times, the weekend…
  17. This is all the life there is
  18. I take [my work] less seriously than anybody
  19. Regrets of the Typical American
  20. We need some delusions to keep us going
  21. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth | Books | The Guardian
  22. Happy endings in life, and in fiction too perhaps, are really about where you…
  23. The war on unhappiness: Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking - By Gary Greenberg (Harper's Magazine)
  24. Jonathan Haidt | FiveBooks
  25. The Happiness Hypothesis (review: 5/5)
  26. What's the relationship between money, ambition, and happiness? - Barking up the wrong tree
  27. It’s fine to go through life happy, in other words, but I suspect we also want…
  28. The best vacation ever - The Boston Globe
  29. Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing
  30. The Happiness Project (review: 3/5)
  31. Satisfaction is a product not of where you are, but of where you’re going
  32. Against Happiness (review: 2.5/5)